Affair Quote by Zicheng Hong

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without…

— Iain Pears

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

— Dante Alighieri

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your…

— Rajneesh

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

Virtue alone is true nobility.

— William Gifford

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's…

— Laozi

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

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I