Joseph Addison Virtue Quotations

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, / In spite of all the virtue we can boast,/ The woman that deliberates is lost.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Virtue which shuns, the day.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.