Accounts Quote by Seneca the Elder

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Robert Hughes

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

— Marcus Aurelius

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I

“Without temptation what value is virtue?”

— Ian Brady

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have…

— Aristotle

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon…

— William Law

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

— Charles Baudelaire

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

— Henry David Thoreau

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

— Henry Wotton

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero