Character Quote by Joseph Joubert

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

— Jonathan V. Last

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

— Confucius

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so…

— Isadora Duncan

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

— Anonymous

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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 most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

— Plato

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

— Honore de Balzac

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

— Confucius

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes…

— Terry Eagleton