Absence Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why,…

— William Shakespeare

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

— Kenneth Arrow

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

— Don Marquis

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

— Socrates

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

— Swami Vivekananda