Character Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse…

— Paulo Coelho

If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our…

— Max Heindel

Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth…

— Hugh Black

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

— Aristotle

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

— Euripides

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

— Narendra Modi

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius