virtue Quotes

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“'Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition, and charity chas'd hence by rancour's hand; foul subornation is predominant, and equity exil'd your highness' land.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“My heart laments that virtue cannot live out of the teeth of emulation.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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“Believe me, it is a divine thing to lend,—to owe, an heroic virtue.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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