Character Quote by Maria Edgeworth

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

— Petrarch

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

— Plato

“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

— Thomas Chalmers

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

— Aristotle

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.…

— Alexis Carrel

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

— Gottfried Leibniz