Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

Sir Francis Bacon
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing. - Thiruvalluvar

  2. May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. - Mary MacLane

  3. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? - Robert A. Heinlein

  4. Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

  5. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

More Quotes By Sir Francis Bacon
  1. Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

  2. The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

  3. A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

  4. Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

  5. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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