Character Quote by Horace

“Things external to her may have their own weight and dimension: but within inside us she gives them such measures as she wills: death…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and…

— George Eliot

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

— James Russell Lowell

“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

“When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the origin of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects…

— Seneca the Younger

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

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n…

— John Milton

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?”

— John Milton