Character Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

— Albert Camus

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

— Laozi

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

— Don Marquis

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

— John Milton

Virtue is harmony.

— Pythagoras

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

— Vincent de Paul

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson