Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.

Your virtue may raise you above the glory of being king. The sort of honour that goes down to our children with real lustre is derived from our deeds and qualities, not from power or titles. For myself, I do not wish to be the wife of a king, but of a general who can make himself superior to the greatest king, not only by courage, but by magnanimity, and superiority to any less elevated motive than duty

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

It takes greater virtues to bear good fortune than bad.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Our wish to deserve the praise of others fortifies our virtue, and praise accorded to intellect, valour, and beauty encourages these things to grow

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

To use Virtue is perfect blessedness.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Virtue alone is elevated and lofty. Nothing is great unless it’s also at peace.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase
Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

All else is Fortune's in this mortal state;
But Virtue soars beyond her love and hate.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.