The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love read more

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim ipsa read more

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri
volunt.]

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time

So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time