# Virtude

A virtude é a qualidade do que se conforma com o considerado correto e desejável, seja do ponto de vista da moral, da religião, do comportamento social ou do dever.
       - Relation without friendship, friendship without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, and profit without vertue, are not worth a farto
          - (Abril de 1733)
          - Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1757, 1758 - página 5, Benjamin Franklin, Rimington & Hooper, publishers, 1928, 55 páginas
       - Le mensonge n'est un vice que quand il fait du mal : c'est une très-grande vertu quand il fait du bien.
          - Carta a M. Thiriot, de 21.10.1736, in: Oeuvres complètes - Página 413, François Marie Arouet de Voltaire - 1785
       - Rien de si affreux que d'être riche sans vertus.
          - Pensées inédites de Rivarol‎ - Página 12, de Antoine Rivarol - Publicado por Impr. de J.-A. Boudon, 1836 - 235 páginas
       - for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
          - "Essays Civil and Moral, item V - Of Adversity" in: "The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England"‎ - Vol. I Página 14, de Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Publicado por A. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1852
       - the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude
          - The Essays, Or Councils, Civil and Moral - Página 11, Francis Bacon - H. Clark, 1718
       - glory and honour are the spurs to virtue
          - Table of the Colours of Good and Evil - Página 8, Francis Bacon - 1664
       - Les vertus se perdent dans l’intérêt comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer
          - Réflexions: Ou, Sentences Et Maximes Morales de La Rochefoucauld‎ - item CLXXI, Página 49, de François La Rochefoucauld, Louis-Aimé Martin - Publicado por Lefèvre, 1822 - 221 páginas
    Virtue is the fount whence honour springs
       - "The first part of tamburlaine the great", scene IV, in: "The works of Christopher Marlowe"‎ - Vol. 1, Página 68, de Christopher Marlowe - W. Pickering, 1826 - 289 páginas
       - In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue)
          - "At the same time: essays and speeches‎" - Página 106, de Susan Sontag, Paolo Dilonardo, Anne Jump, David Rieff - Publicado por Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007, ISBN 0374100721, 9780374100728 - 235 páginas
       - That virtue which requires to be ever guarded, is scarcely worth the sentinel.
          - The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of pieces now first collected by J. Prior‎ - Página 41, Oliver Goldsmith, James Prior - George P. Putnam, 1853
       - Et quand on est riche, si l'on a tout, quel intérêt à avoir du mérite et de la vertu?
          - Diderot et Catherine II‎ - Página 239, Maurice Tourneux, Denis Diderot - Calmann Lévy, 1899 - 601 páginas
       - It is not because of woman's cowardice, incapacity, nor, above all, because of her general superior virtue, that she will end war when her voice is fully and clearly heard in the governance of states — it is because, on this one point, and on this point almost alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not
          - "Woman and Labor" - página 178, Olive Schreiner, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1417936460, 9781417936465, 308 páginas
       - L'utilité de la vertu est si manifeste , que les méchants la pratiquent par intérêt.
          - Oeuvres complètes de Vauvenargues: précédées d'une notice sur sa vie et ses ouvrages et accompagnées des notes, Volume 2 - Página 6 - item 403, Vauvenargues - Chez J. L. J. Brière, 1823
    - Sócrates, citado em "Código social, ó sea, Eco de la moral de las naciones antiguas y modernas" - Página 15, Impr. Catalana, 1844 - 135 páginas
       - Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
          - Man and superman: a comedy and a philosophy - página 235, Bernard Shaw - Brentano's, 1903 - 175 páginas
       - Assim Falava Zaratustra: Um livro para todos e para ninguém - página 17, Friedrich Nietzsche, tradução de Mário Ferreira dos Santos - Petrópolis, Editora Vozes, 2017, ISBN 8532655114, 9788532655110, 368 páginas
       - Carlos Lacerda citado em "Folclore político: 1950 histórias" - Página 17, Sebastião Nery - Geração Editorial, 2002, ISBN 8575090615, 9788575090619 - 651 páginas