Character Quote by Robert Colton

“Yet in its life, for eight hundred years, virtue alone, that one word, has illuminated and explained something of what we think we are,…

— Melvyn Bragg

“Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of…

— Gordon S. Wood

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it…

— Geoffrey Wood

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

— John Steinbeck

“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange;…

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover…

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

— Tom Robbins