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Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
— John Vanbrugh
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
— Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
— Baruch Spinoza
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Virtue is to herself the best reward.
— Henry More
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
— George William Curtis
Virtue is its own reward.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Honor is the reward of virtue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
— Walter Lippmann
Love's like virtue, its own reward.
— John Vanbrugh
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
— Jeremy Taylor
Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.
— Joseph Kerman
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
— John Vanbrugh
Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue was its own reward.
— Louisa May Alcott
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.
— Luc De Clapiers
It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.
— Orson Scott Card
Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
— Brandon Sanderson
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
— Quentin Crisp
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
— Gertrude Atherton
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
— George Washington
Reward is its own virtue.
— Carolyn Wells
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
— Harry Graham
Virtue is her own reward.
— John Dryden
Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.
— Kenneth Arrow
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
— Harper Lee
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
— Izaak Walton
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
— Silius Italicus
Happiness is the reward of virtue.
— Aristotle.
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
— Charles Kingsley