Thomas Browne Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

  Thomas Browne

  Confused, Taken, Men

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1

• The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Laughing, Vices, Virtue

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.183

• There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

  Thomas Browne

  Character, Way, Royal

• Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.135

• I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

  Thomas Browne

  Real, Soul, New Friendship

  Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.129

• They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

  Thomas Browne

  Vices, Virtue, Endeavour

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.119

• Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

  Thomas Browne

  Envy, Dumb, Debt

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.152

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