Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“He studies virtues, vices, flaws and merits, the wisdom and puerility of others.”

— Stefan Zweig

“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because…

— Donald J. Robertson

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.”

— Aristotle

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

“Virtue is admirable, but boring.”

— John Twelve Hawks

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle

“Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within…

— Dean Koontz

“None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.”

— Aristotle

“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.”

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle