Action Quote by Thomas Merton

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

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice…

— Aristotle

“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

— Aristotle

“Now we come to the crux of my philosophy: if the taking of pleasure is enhanced by the criminal character of the circumstances --…

— Marquis de Sade

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

— Philip Yancey

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

— John Gay

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

— Thomas Chalmers

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

— Fernando Pessoa

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the…

— Sydney J. Harris

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and…

— W. Somerset Maugham