Action Quote by John Milton

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

— John Milton

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

— Plutarch

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or…

— Baruch Spinoza

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

— Horace

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which…

— Aristotle

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

— Horace Walpole

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

Most virtue lies between two vices.

— Horace