Great Throughts Treasury

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Richard Milnes, fully Baron Richard Monckton Milnes, First Lord Houghton

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

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Character | Corruption | Enough | Knowledge | Virtue | Virtue |

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The virtue of the soul does not insist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.

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Character | Mediocrity | Soul | Virtue | Virtue |

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Jane Porter

It depends on education to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or to misery.

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Character | Education | Virtue | Virtue | Happiness |

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Plautus, full name Titus Maccius Plautus NULL

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

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William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa

A large part of virtue consists in good habits.

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Character | Good | Virtue | Virtue |

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Nikita Ivanovich Panin

To seek virtue for the sake of reward is to dig for iron with a spade of gold.

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Character | Gold | Reward | Virtue | Virtue |

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Thomas Paine

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

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Character | Posterity | Virtue | Virtue |

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Joseph Parker

No virtue fades out of mankind. No over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

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Character | Despair | Experience | Mankind | Virtue | Virtue |

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Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

Each virtue is its own reward.

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Plotinus NULL

To put Happiness in actions is to put it in things that are outside virtue and outside the Soul; for the Soul’s expression is not in action but in wisdom, in a contemplative operation within itself; and this, this alone, is Happiness.

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Action | Character | Soul | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Happiness |

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Plautus, full name Titus Maccius Plautus NULL

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things.

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Elijah ben Raphael

Never hesitate to ask where the acquisition of virtue is concerned.

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Francis Quarles

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fools furnace.

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Beauty | Character | Heart | Man | Paradise | Soul | Thought | Virtue | Virtue | Wise | Beauty | Thought | Vice |

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell

Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue.

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Quintilian, fully Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also Quintillian and Quinctilian NULL

Vice, the opposite of virtue, shows us more clearly what virtue is. Justice becomes more obvious when we have injustice to compare it to. Many such things are proved by their contraries.

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Character | Injustice | Injustice | Justice | Virtue | Virtue |

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Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, aka Sir Benjamin Thompson or Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously attentive to cleanliness who was a consummate villain.

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Character | Cleanliness | Man | Virtue | Virtue |

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