Full Idea
Virtue would not go far without vanity to bear it company.
Gist of Idea
Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity
Source
La Rochefoucauld (Maxims [1663], 200)
Book Reference
Rochefoucauld,La: 'Maxims' [Penguin 1959], p.59
A Reaction
Rochefoucauld's cynicism gets a bit tedious, but lovers of virtue must face up to this possibility when they consider what motivates them. At the heart of Aristotle there is a missing question, of what is so good about right-functioning and virtue.