“Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter IV
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 650.
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“Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
La vertu, d'un cœur noble est la marque certaine.
Satire 5, l. 42
Satires (1716)
“For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.”
Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis,
nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit.
Book I, epistle xvii, line 9
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy”
Sola virtus praestat gaudium perpetuum, securum; etiam si quid obstat, nubium modo intervenit, quae infra feruntur nec umquam diem vincunt.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Letter XXVII
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)
Context: Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
José Saramago book Death with Interruptions
A propósito, não resistiremos a recordar que a morte, por si mesma, sozinha, sem qualquer ajuda externa, sempre matou muito menos que o homem.
Source: Death with Interruptions (2005), p. 117
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
La virtud es cosa de veras, todo lo demás de burlas. La capacidad y grandeza se ha de medir por la virtud, no por la fortuna. Ella sola se basta a sí misma. Vivo el hombre, le haze amable; y muerto, memorable.
Maxim 300 (p. 168)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
