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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Author: Adam Smith
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Author: Sir John Vanbrugh
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Author: George Santayana
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Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
Author: Françoise Mallet-Joris
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Author: Don Marquis
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And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.
Author: Fredrich Nietzsche
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Author: Confucius
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Author: Confucius
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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Author: Richard Halloway
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
Author: Diogenes
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
Author: Mark Twain
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.
Author: Albert J. Nock
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Author: Edmund Burke
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Author: Ed Howe
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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