virtue Quotes

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

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“But virtue's true reward is happiness itself, for which the virtuous work: whereas if they worked for honor, it would no longer be a virtue, but ambition.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favours such a confidence.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”

― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

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“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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