Age Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of…

— Charles Kingsley

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

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

— Plutarch

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

— Statius

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive…

— Walter Scott

Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master…

— Jane Porter

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

— Socrates