Character Quote by Juvenal

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

— Juvenal

“Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever…

— Inazo Nitobe

“And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study 17 Virtue, and that part of philosophy 18 Will I apply that treats of happiness 19…

— William Shakespeare

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery…

— Francois Fenelon

Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them…

— Socrates

“We are, therefore, seeking how the mind can follow a smooth and steady course, well disposed to itself, happily regarding its own condition and…

— Seneca

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that…

— Catherine Wilson

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

— Walter Scott

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No life can be free from the storms of adversity unless that family and that home are built on foundations of morality, fidelity, and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche