Character Quote by Suzanne Curchod

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

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

— William Shakespeare

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

— Aristotle

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

— Thomas Chalmers

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

— Agnes Repplier

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

— Petrarch

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

— Maria Edgeworth

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.…

— Alexis Carrel