"Get money first; virtue comes after." — Horace

More First Virtue Quotes

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• The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes. — Eugene Delacroix
• Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon
• The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as… — Stendhal
• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, — John Rawls
• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and… — John Rawls
• Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible. — Jonathan V. Last
• Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible. — Aristotle
• Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. — Denis Diderot
• I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be… — Cato the Elder
• The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. — Anatole France
• Get money first; virtue comes later. — Horace

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