Character Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or…

— Jonathan Swift

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better…

— Hugh Kingsmill

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

— Stefan Molyneux

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

— George Bernard Shaw

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

— William Ellery Channing

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

— Eric Hoffer

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Love of self is still determined by negativity insofar as it devalues and wards off the Other in favor of the Own.”

— Byung-Chul Han

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

— Socrates