Character Quote by Irving Babbitt

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

— John Bradshaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

— Honore de Balzac

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

— Laozi

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in…

— Aristotle