Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

— Alphonse Karr

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

— Mason Cooley

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

— Laozi

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

Virtue makes the world better.

— M. K. Stalin

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

— Nomy Arpaly

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint…

— Honore de Balzac

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

— Honore de Balzac

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche