Virtue Quotes - Page 18

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59
Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.133, Barnes & Noble Publishing
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation
"Complete Works of Ben Jonson".
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.64
Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.135