Character Quote by Terry Eagleton

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

— Seneca the Younger

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

— Anonymous

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

— William S. Burroughs

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

— Arthur Dobrin

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

— Edmund Burke

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

— Joseph Joubert

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

— Thomas Carlyle