Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Virgilium vidi tantum—Virgil I have only seen. Ovid.

Viribus unitis—With united strength. M. of Joseph I.

Viris fortibus non opus est mœnibus—Brave men have no need of walls.

Virtue alone can procure that independence 45 which is the end of human wishes. Petrarch.

Virtue alone has majesty in death. Young.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone carry themselves into practice. Mencius.

Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; / Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. Young.

Virtue and goodness tend to make men powerful in this world; but they who aim at the power have not the virtue. Newman.

Virtue does not consist in doing what will be 50 presently paid; it will be paid some day; but the vital condition of it, as virtue, is that it shall be content in its own deed, and desirous rather that the pay of it, if any, should be for others. Ruskin.

Virtue, if it could only be beheld by our eyes, would excite a marvellous love for wisdom. (?)