Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire