You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the read more
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but read more
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and
imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium
impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque
virtutis.]
