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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure read more
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one read more
Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues