Plautus Quotes

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

I think no virtue goes with size.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.