Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
That law may be set down as good which is certain in meaning, just in precept, convenient in execution, agreeable to the form of government, and productive of virtue in those that live under it.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i.
Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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