Character Quote by Philip Sidney

Those lovers scorn whom thatlove doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

— Anonymous

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

— Stefan Molyneux

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

— Robert Burns

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best…

— Francis Bacon

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

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

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,…

— Bible

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing…

— Confucius