Accepting Quote by Seneca the Younger

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to…

— Sophie Swetchine

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian…

— Jane Porter

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be…

— Francis Quarles

Virtue alone is true nobility.

— William Gifford

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

— Confucius

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

— Emily Dickinson

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n…

— John Milton

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

— John Locke

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

— Jonathan V. Last