virtue is its own reward

virtue is its own reward
Cf. OVID Ex Ponto ii. iii. virtutem pretium..esse sui, virtue is its own reward.

1509 A. BARCLAY Ship of Fools 10v Vertue hath no rewarde.

1596 SPENSER Faerie Queene III. xii. Your vertue selfe her owne reward shall breed, Euen immortall praise, and glory wyde.

1642 BROWNE Religio Medici I. 87 That vertue is her owne reward, is but a cold principle.

1673 DRYDEN Assignation III. i. Virtue..is its own reward: I expect none from you.

1844 DICKENS Martin Chuzzlewit xv. It is creditable to keep up one’s spirits here. Virtue’s its own reward.

1988 H. MANTEL Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1989) 19 His patience was not like other people’s, a rather feeble virtue, which had, by its nature, to be its own reward.

2002 Spectator 12 Jan. 18 Humble people lack self-esteem, and chastity is just another sexual dysfunction. Virtue is not so much its own reward as a condition requiring therapeutic intervention.


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