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Virtue Quotes - Page 9

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.167, Penguin

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.85, Univ of California Press

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

"An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain" (1756)

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 484, 1895.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.171

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

"Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.