Character Quote by Luc de Clapiers

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

— George Bernard Shaw

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

— Isidore of Seville

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

— John Tillotson

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

— Petrarch