Virtue Definition Quotes

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.