Virtutis Quotes & Sayings

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.] — Juvenal

I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power — Narendra Modi

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost. — Tom Douglas

Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids. — Adrian Grenier

30,000 mornings, give or take, is all we're given. — Dan Zadra

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The good hate sin because they love virtue.
[Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.] — Horace

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. — Barack Obama

Liv had made it to Dragon Con. She had people to stay with and money in her pocket. Now all she needed to do was meet Spartan and she could die happy. — Danika Stone

I began with the desire to speak with the dead. — Stephen Greenblatt

Old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen was, Isabel had always felt, a moral tragedy for medicine. — Alexander McCall Smith

Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious. — Willie Geist

Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. He took it in stride by now. — Jonathan Lethem

I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses. — Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul. — Bruce Springsteen

It wasn't time yet. You'll find it again, if you look hard enough. — Lev Grossman

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally. — Pete Hegseth