Character Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in…

— Francois 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

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

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

“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right,…

— N.T. Wright

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

— Plato

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

— Plato