Character Quote by Max Weber

“The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.”

— St. Ambrose

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

— E. W. Howe

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have…

— Aristotle

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

— Denis Diderot

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

— Confucius

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

— Aristotle

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem…

— Samuel Johnson

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

— Frances Wright

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer