Avoiding Quote by Horace

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue…

— Plautus

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

— Juvenal

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

— Joseph Joubert

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen…

— Quintilian

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

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

— Laozi

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa…

— Quintilian