Character Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded…

— G.K. Chesterton

The reward of virtue is only virtue

— Ritu Ghatourey

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

Virtue is its own reward.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

— Tacitus

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

— Claudius Claudianus

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

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

— Baruch Spinoza

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

— Walter Lippmann

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

— Aristotle

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

— Aristotle