Quotes About Virtue

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

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

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Happiness is a sort of action.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Make us happy and you make us good.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

He who is good is happy.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.