Beauty Quote by Aulus Persius Flaccus

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

— Juvenal

“...for although we may fully respect our social conventions...it may unfortunately happen that , through the perversity of others we encounter only the thorns…

— Marquis deSade

“Hei mihi quod tanto virtus perfusa decore non habet eternos inviolata dies' Alas, that so much virtue suffused with beauty should not last for…

— Nicholas Hilliard

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

— Horace

“By the power of this, may the obstacles of those great beings who are doctrine holders be dispelled!!! May the lives of those who…

— Sarah Jacoby Khandro

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding.…

— Baltasar Gracián

“That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found…

— George Eliot

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

— Horace

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to…

— Sophie Swetchine

“O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship,…

— William Shakespeare

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato