Character Quote by Idries Shah

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

“The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.”

— Loraine Despres

“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our…

— Aristotle

“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.”

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

“Virtue is admirable, but boring.”

— John Twelve Hawks

“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because…

— Donald J. Robertson

“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”

— Barbara Pym

“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political…

— Aristotle

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle