Character Quote by Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best…

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

— Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict…

— Sathya Sai Baba

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of…

— Alfred Tennyson

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

— Socrates

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

— Plato

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote