Character Quote by Meister Eckhart

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

— Laozi

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

— Plutarch

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people,…

— Bertrand Russell

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

— Otto Weininger

“Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather…

— Edward Hooker Dewey

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a…

— Francis Bacon

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

— Saint Bernard