Beauty Quote by William Shakespeare

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

— Plato

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but…

— Socrates

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there…

— Virginia Woolf

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

— Sallust

“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.”

— Mensah Oteh

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis;…

— Sallust

“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”

— Francis Bacon

“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those…

— James Lee Burke

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without…

— Plato

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of…

— Henry David Thoreau