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

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, 30 commands respect. Schiller.

Virtue, though in rags, will keep one warm. Dryden, after Horace.

Virtue, which breaks through all opposition / And all temptations can remove, / Most shines and most is acceptable above. Milton.

Virtue which is according to the precepts of reason, appears equally great in avoiding as in overcoming dangers. Spinoza.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be; / Few in the extreme, but all in a degree. Pope.

Virtus ariete fortior—Virtue is stronger than a 35 battering-ram. M.

Virtus est medium vitiorum, et utrinque reductum—Virtue is the mean between two vices, and equally removed from either. Hor.

Virtus est militis decus—Valour is the soldier's honour. Livy.

Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima / Stultitia caruisse—It is virtue to shun vice, and the first step of wisdom is to be free from folly. Hor.

Virtus hominem jungit Deo—Virtue unites man with God. Cic.