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Virtue Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
- Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
- Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
- Virtue is the truest nobility.
- Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
- Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
- It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are…
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