Virtues

Famous quotes containing the word virtues:

“Is it a world to hide virtues in?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands—or gets down.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The Virtues have respectively a Masculine and a Feminine Cast. What we call in Men Wisdom, is in Woman Prudence.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)