Virtue Quotes - Page 31
Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.120
Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3
Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.78
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.223, University of Chicago Press
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.271
Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.259
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.
David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.
David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.20
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes
'A Hymn to the Pillory' (1703) l. 29
If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”
