Virtue · Skopia

Quotes

20

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 8.0

Poem · Didactic poem

Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 7.6

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.0

Political literature

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.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 5.3

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Books

10

The Nicomachean Ethics

350 BC★ 7.6

The Odes of Horace

23 BC★ 7.5

The Consolation of Philosophy

524★ 7.4

On Duties (De Officiis)

44 BC★ 7.4

Mencius

300 BC★ 7.3

Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

100★ 7.1

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