Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Wicked, Virtue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.449, Collector's Library

• It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Eye, Responsibility, Knights

• Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Generosity, Envy, Reign

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.450, Collector's Library

• In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Envy, Reign, Virtue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. By Charles Jarvis Esq; ...”, p.441

• If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blood, Envy, Acting

• Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Thinking, Poetry, Literature

• Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Tears, Seduction

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

• Virtue is the truest nobility.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Virtue, Nobility

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1719). “THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.”, p.129

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