“Making a virtue of necessity.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
III, 86
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Make a virtue of necessity.”
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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“3313. Make a Virtue of Necessity.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”
Book III, 1276b.34
Politics
“Others made a virtue of necessity.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 22.
“We give to necessity the praise of virtue.”
Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
Book I, Chapter VIII, 14
Compare: "To maken vertue of necessite", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Knightes Tale", line 3044
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speech to the American Legion convention, New York City (27 August 1952); as quoted in "Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism" in Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History (2004) by William Safire, p. 81 - 82
Context: It was always accounted a virtue in a man to love his country. With us it is now something more than a virtue. It is a necessity. When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Men who have offered their lives for their country know that patriotism is not the fear of something; it is the love of something.
“Necessity makes a joke of civilization.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
In Joy Still Felt (1980), p. 124
General sources
“Necessity makes even the timid brave.”
Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter LVII