Alexander Pope Quotes

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

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

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.