Exceed Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

— Honore de Balzac

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

— Aristotle

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

— Maxwell Maltz

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

— Laozi

“We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

Your virtue is a vice when you are self-righteous about it.

— Anonymous

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

— Henry David Thoreau