Character Quote by Ruth Gordon

“Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that…

— Maude (Harold & Maude

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of so much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for…

— Henry David Thoreau

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

— Aristotle

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is…

— Aristotle

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

— Jean Racine

“Thoreau said, ‘Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be…

— Krista Ritchie

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

— Voltaire

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

— Edward Gorey

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice…

— Aristotle