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01Undated

What is left when honour is lost?

Publius Syrus / maxim

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02Undated

His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.

Publius Syrus / maxim

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03c. 28 AD

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Seneca / quote

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04c. 80 AD

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Quintilian / quote

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05c. 92 AD

Nobility is the one only virtue.

Juvenal / quote

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06c. 83 AD

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Plutarch / quote

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07c. 83 AD

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Plutarch / quote

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08c. 83 AD

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.

Plutarch / quote

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09c. 83 AD

Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth."

Plutarch / quote

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10c. 60 AD

There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,—that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.

Epictetus / quote

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11c. 150 AD

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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12c. 200 AD

Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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13c. 200 AD

That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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14c. 200 AD

He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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15c. 200 AD

The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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16c. 200 AD

Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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17c. 200 AD

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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18c. 392 AD

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,—although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Saint Augustine / quote

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19c. 1524 AD

Others made a virtue of necessity.

Francis Rabelais / quote

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20c. 1562 AD

She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, . . . or internal difficulties.

Michael De Montaigne / quote

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21c. 1562 AD

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Michael De Montaigne / quote

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22c. 1581 AD

Honesty is the best policy.

Miguel De Cervantes / quote

Meaning: Being truthful often protects trust and avoids the complications of maintaining a deception. Honest conduct can support lasting relationships even when admitting the truth is uncomfortable.

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23c. 1646 AD

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld / maxim

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24Undated

All is lost save honour.

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

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