Blank Quote by John Milton

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

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to…

— Anne Bronte

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

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

— Edmund Waller

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of…

— Michel de Montaigne

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian…

— Jane Porter

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I