Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Virtue
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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.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
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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.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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