Quotes about virtue
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Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way to the stars.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 95If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Better Part (1901)It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Foreword to John Duffett (ed.), Against the Crime of Silence: Proceedings of the International War Crimes Tribunal (1970), p. xxiv- MMuhammad571–632Sunni Hadith
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.- POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022Rolling Stone (30 November 1989)
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator, No. 225 (17 November 1711)
Augustine of Hippo354–430The City of God, Book IV, ch. 3
Anthony the Great251–357Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum), Antony 35; trans. Benedicta Ward (1975)Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!
Ernst Jünger1895–1998On Pain (1934)There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Plague (1947)Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh’s Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw
