Ovid Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Beauty, Depressing

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

• Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

  Ovid

  Sibling, Mistake, Doors

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.191, Indiana University Press

• To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

  Ovid

  Silence, Secret, Faults

• In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
  [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
  Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

  Ovid

  Benefits, Rewards, Judgment

• Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune,
  That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

  Ovid

  Virtue, Fortune

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