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Epic poem2 quotes
Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Most men admire
Virtue who follow not her lore. — John Milton · 1671Philosophical literature2 quotes
Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state. — Socrates · 399 BCNeither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. — Aristotle · 322 BCPolitical literature2 quotes
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — John Milton · 1644We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt. — Edmund Burke · 1770Religious literature2 quotes
Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Most men admire
Virtue who follow not her lore. — John Milton · 1671Comedy (play)1 quote
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare · 1598Didactic poem1 quote
Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows. — Hesiod · 700 BCGreek tragedy1 quote
For he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest. — Aeschylus · 467 BCHistorical literature1 quote
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust · 42 BCHistory (play)1 quote
Virtue is choked with foul ambition. — William Shakespeare · 1594Narrative poem1 quote
Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Political speech1 quote
There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. — George Washington · 1789Tragedy (play)1 quote
For he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest. — Aeschylus · 467 BCTravel writing1 quote
Virtue never has been as respectable as money. — Mark Twain · 1869