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Virtue Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then…
- He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
- There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
- Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
- Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk…
- Assume a virtue if you have it not.
- No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To…
- So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time
- Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the…
- The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not;…
- All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is…
- As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
- Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
- Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
- To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
- I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an…
- No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up…
- Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too…
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
- Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
- Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
- Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
- Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
- The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine