Character Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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 is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

— Ajahn Chah

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

— Henry David Thoreau

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

— Anonymous

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

— Alexander Hamilton

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

— Thomas Adams

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes