„In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.“

— Marcus Aurelius

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„The exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O, my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. …in the true exchange, there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are a purgation of them.“
— Socrates
„But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.“
— Jonathan Edwards
„He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„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.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.“
— William Saroyan
„Love is the virtue of the Heart,Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,Decision is the virtue of the Will,Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright