Full Idea
The writers of moral philosophy, though they acknowledge the same virtues and vices, yet not seeing wherein consisted their goodness, nor that they come to be praised as the means of peaceable, sociable and comfortable living.
Gist of Idea
Virtues are a means to peaceful, sociable and comfortable living
Source
Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.15)
Book Reference
Hobbes,Thomas: 'Leviathan', ed/tr. Macpherson,C.B. [Penguin 1981], p.216