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Virtue Quotes - Page 18

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

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

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.133, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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