“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
June 22, 1839
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William Shakespeare699
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David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 23 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variant: The only way to have a friend is to be one.
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
H 13
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)
“Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) French tragedian
Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.
Tulle, act V, scene iii.
Horace (1639)
“It is not only a right; it is a virtue.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi
Context: Men have gone towards each other because of that ray of light which each of them contains; and light resembles light. It reveals that the isolated man, too free in the open expanses, is doomed to adversity as if he were a captive, in spite of appearances; and that men must come together that they may be stronger, that they may be more peaceful, and even that they may be able to live.
For men are made to live their life in its depth, and also in all its length. Stronger than the elements and keener than all terrors are the hunger to last long, the passion to possess one's days to the very end and to make the best of them. It is not only a right; it is a virtue.
“A girl can stand just so much virtue.”
Loraine Despres (1938) Novelist/screen writer
The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
“Virtue is the one and only nobility.”
Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.
VIII, line 20.
Compare : We'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we'll be good.
Thomas Percy, Winifreda (1720).
Satires, Satire VI
Variant: Nobility is the one only virtue.
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Al-Khisal, p. 4
[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Jasim al-Rasheed, The Life of Imam Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Baqir, His traditions from the Prophet, 1999]