virtue - quotes

Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 1622-1673

was a French actor and comic dramatist

Virtue on earth is persecuted ever; the envious die, but envy never.

( “The Misanthrope”, 1666 )

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 1694-1778

was a French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche, 1844-1900

was a German philosopher

They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely—your mistakes.

Joseph Addison, 1672-1719

was an English essayist, poet, and politician

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!

( “Cato, a Tragedy” , Act 4, Scene 4, 1713, 1712 )

Joseph Addison, 1672-1719

was an English essayist, poet, and politician

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

( “Cato, a Tragedy”, 1712 )

Ben(jamin) Jonson, 1572-1637

was an English dramatist and poet

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.