We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.

Original text (Latin)

Notes from Wikiquote

Book I, Chapter VIII, 14 | Compare: "To maken vertue of necessite", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Knightes Tale", line 3044

In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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