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Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Source: Concord Days--April Outlook
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Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still
A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Author: John Armstrong
Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 265)
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Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul,
Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness
That even above the smiles and frowns of fate
Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth
That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.
Author: John Armstrong
Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 284)
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Adversity
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Beauty
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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
[Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Satires (V, 42)
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What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Monsieur D'Olive (act I, sc. 1, l. 127)
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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and
imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium
impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque
virtutis.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Academici (IV, 46)
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Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Brutus (LXXXI)
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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri
volunt.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (XXVI)
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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse
alios improbos suspicatur.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistoloe Ad Fratrem (I, 1)
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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
[Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere,
velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Gratio Pro Lucio Cornelio Balbo (VI)
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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
[Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXV)
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and
moderation and reason.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Rhetorical Invention (bk. II, sc. LIII)
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
[Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Consulatu Mallii--Theodorii Panegyris (V, I)
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Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
[Lat., Vile latens virtus.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (222)
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Well may your heart believe the truths I tell;
'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
Author: Wilkie (William) Collins
Source: Eclogue I (l. 5, Selim)
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
Author: Confucius
Source: Analects (bk. I, ch. IV)
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have
neighbors.
Author: Confucius
Source: Analects (bk. IV, ch. XXV)
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All great virtues become great men.
[Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Notes de Corneille par La Rochefoucauld
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The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 268)
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Author: Minna Antrim
Source: None
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2
Author: Bible
Source: None
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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Author: Elizabeth Blackwell
Source: None
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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
Source: None
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Author: Albert Camus
Source: None
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: None
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Author: Alexander Comfort
Source: None
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
Author: Isadora Duncan
Source: None
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Virtue is the only true nobility.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: None
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Source: None
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The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
Author: Lady Constance Lytton
Source: None
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Source: None
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Source: None
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Virtue is a sure anchor.
Author: Motto
Source: None
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Author: Laurence Hope Nicolson
Source: None
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If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.
Author: Philokalia
Source: None
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Author: English Proverb
Source: None
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Source: None
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Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
Author: Marquis De Sade
Source: None
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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