Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

— Alphonse Karr

Virtue is its own punishment.

— Aneurin Bevan

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally…

— Bertrand Russell

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

— Statius

Virtue is too often merely local.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Too much virtue can be criminal.

— Jean Racine