Assistants Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,…

— David Hume

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

— Dominique Bouhours

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

— Antonio Machado

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve…

— George William Curtis

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

— Mary Astell

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

— Bergen Evans