Character Quote by Herbert Spencer

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Walter Lippmann

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that…

— Diogenes

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

— Albert Camus

Virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but…

— Anonymous

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

— Aristotle

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

— Aristotle

Expression of happiness cannot be concealed..

— Anonymous