Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. (Quote by - Sir John Vanbrugh)
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
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. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
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. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. (Quote by - Fran oise Mallet-Joris)
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
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. (Quote by - Fredrich Nietzsche)
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. (Quote by - Confucius)
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. (Quote by - Confucius)
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. (Quote by - Richard Halloway)
Blushing is the color of virtue. (Quote by - Diogenes)
Virtue is insufficient temptation. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Be good and you will be lonesome. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. (Quote by - Albert J. Nock)
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
The only reward of virtue is virtue. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)