Forca e vertu, good qualities both when used wisely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

¶ Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue] Reference

L'hypocrisie est une hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Traditionalists Should Prefer Libertines to Hypocrites, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Voilà la véritable vertu, voilà la véritable probité.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moniteur/Morning Chronicle] Reference

"L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850] Reference

Il lui obtint les plus heureuses dispositions pour la vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

"Le vice rend hommage à la vertu en s'honorant de sus apparences.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850] Reference

Il lit un long discours dans lequel il commence par vanter sa vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moniteur/Morning Chronicle] Reference

Men must, however, eat, in spite both of sentiment and vertu; and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley] Reference

To ferret out objects of vertu the Jacobean gentleman would take any journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference

"Dites-lui que nous lui ordonnons de revenir, en vertu de la Loi du GrandTout.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anywhen]

L'eau, si claire qu'elle puisse être, n'a pas de vertu de blanchir du drap teint en noir.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

Bonnel Thornton, and Lord Kelly, and delivering his opinions in matters of taste and vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

I bought lands at ten times their value; purchased pictures and articles of vertu at ruinous prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

"Nous savons que ce n'est point chose nouvelle, que Dieu nous testifie sa vertu par signes exterieurs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

Ah! vertu-bamboche! what charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces and what lovely lasses!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

It has not so many objects of vertu, but the collection contains more things which show the real character of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

Also the dyamand scholde ben zoven frely, with outen coveytynge and with outen byggynge: and than it is of grettere vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Dahl, M. Shee, Knapton, West, Jansen, Verelst; in fact not only in the picture-gallery, but in all parts of the Abbey are scattered treasures of art and vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference

They were just the kind of hands which generally display rings, and which are most to be seen on persons who are both inclined to use them and fond of objets de vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth] Reference

And zif ony cursed wycche or enchauntour wolde bewycche him, that berethe the dyamand; alle that sorwe and myschance schalle turne to him self, thorghe vertu of that ston.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Behind him the humble-men pass, embracing busts and other articles of vertu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference

En vertu de l'entente d'option modifiee, la societe paiera une somme de 12 500.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

La longanimite est une belle vertu; c'est elle qui me fait esperer de revoir Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France] Reference