Adequate Quote by Samuel Johnson

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of…

— Samuel Johnson

Virtue is its own punishment.

— Aneurin Bevan

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery…

— Francois Fenelon

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

— John Tillotson

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in…

— John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm. Shall in…

— John Milton

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

— William Hazlitt

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One…

— Alexander Pope

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes