Character Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

— Maria Edgeworth

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

— Maxwell Maltz

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its…

— William James

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

— Ralph Venning

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal"…

— Freda Adler

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or…

— Philip Sidney

“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable." Jose Martì”

— S. Conde

Make a virtue of necessity.

— Geoffrey Chaucer