Activity Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange;…

— François de La Rochefoucauld

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going…

— Molly Crabapple

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

— E. W. Howe

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.…

— Alexis Carrel

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known…

— Archibald Alexander

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite…

— Albert Pike

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock