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How is Virtue Ethics not just Consequentialist with a different value system?

As I understand it, consequentialism is a normative ethical framework that judges the value of an action based on its outcome. 

Virtue ethics propose that the the character of the actor should be the measure of ethical value. 

How is this not just consequentialism, with higher value placed on the personal, internal consequences than the consequences in the outside world?

If so, doesn't this make virtue ethics fundamentally selfish?

edit: clarification of what I mean by selfish. 

Propose a scenario with two possible decisions and outcomes, A and B.

Consequentialist and Virtuist agree that the objective consequences are superior in "A" (more lives saved, for instance) 

However Virtuist feels decision A violates his virtuous character. (must commit despicable act)

Virtuist must either 

a) violate his moral character to act for the best consequence, in which case virtuism == consequentialism, and virtuism has no distinct philosophical identity. 

or 

b) choose personal virtue over the common good. 

I argue that the second case is a selfish act.
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Virtue ethics doesn't say that we should try to maximize the amount of virtue in the world. That would be a kind of consequentialism which assigns intrinsic value to virtue.

What a virtue ethicist would say is that when making choices you should act on the basis of your virtuous dispositions. Not that you should aim at virtue as if it was the good.

A virtuous person might help other develop and themselves enhance their virtues, but only because this is the kind of thing that a virtuous person would do. It's part of being wise and kind.

Do virtuous people only aim at the internal? Probably not. A virtuous person might value beauty and order and work to make the surrounding world better aesthetically and work to make their society more just.

Is virtue ethics selfish? Probably not, since common virtues on many theories are kindness and generosity, and if you act on the basis of such virtues, it is hard to see how you are being selfish.