Herbert Spencer Quotes
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
Herbert Spencer
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
John Tillotson
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
Aristotle
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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
Aristotle
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
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Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.
Socrates
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Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...
Florynce Kennedy
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
Herbert Spencer
