Adversaries Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

— Ajahn Chah

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

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

— Don Marquis

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian…

— Jane Porter

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is not enough for us to perform the works of virtue, exercising obedience, excepting poverty or disgrace or practicing humility or detachment in…

— Meister Eckhart

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I

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

— Boethius

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

— Robert Staughton Lynd