A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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

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  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. *just deserts; virtue
  

virtue see also PATIENCE is a virtue.
visitor see FISH and guests smell after three days.
The VOICE of the people is the voice of God
Cf. a 804 ALCUIN Letter clxiv. in Works (1863) 1.438 solent dicere: voxpopuli, vox Dei, they often say: the voice of the people is the voice of God.

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  с 1412 T. HOCCLEVE Regimen of Princes (EETS) 104 Peples vois is goddes voys, men seyne. 1450 in T. Wright Political Poems (1861) II. 227 The voice of the people is the voice of God. 1646 BROWNE Pseudodoxia Epidemica I. iii. Though sometimes they are flattered with that Aphorisme, [they] will hardly beleeve the voyce of the people to bee the voyce of God. 1822 C. C. COLTON Lacon II. 266 The voice of the People is the voice of God; this axiom has manifold exceptions. 1914 G. B. SHAW Misalliance p. lxxii. An experienced demagogue comes along and says, ‘Sir: you are the dictator: the voice of the people is the voice of God.’ 1989 Washington Post 24 Mar. C21 imagine they are fine citizens. After all, we elected them and the voice of the people is the voice of God, remember that. "politics; power; rulers and ruled