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Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. -- Confucius
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. -- Maya Angelou
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -- Benjamin Franklin
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. -- Plato
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. -- Samuel Adams
Be virtuous and you will be vicious. -- Samuel Butler
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. -- Mark Twain
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. -- Joseph Addison
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. -- Benjamin Franklin
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. -- Plato
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. -- Samuel Johnson
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? -- William Shakespeare
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. -- Confucius
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. -- Frederick Douglass
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. -- William Penn
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000 Year Leap -- Benjamin Franklin
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. -- Confucius
The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear. -- Confucius
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock. -- Aldous Huxley
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man... -- Samuel Adams
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust. -- James Madison
Virtuous men alone possess friends. -- Voltaire
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. -- Alexander Pope
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. -- Chanakya
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. -- Isadora Duncan
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. -- Iris Murdoch
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. -- Martin Luther
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. -- Ezra Taft Benson
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. -- Andrew Jackson
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. -- Lucretia Mott
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. -- William Harvey
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times. -- Thomas Aquinas
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. -- George Santayana
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. -- Benjamin Franklin
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. -- Thomas Aquinas
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. -- Jose Marti
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. -- Aldous Huxley
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. -- John Maynard Keynes
It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve. -- Martha Beck
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue. -- Terry Eagleton
By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while. -- Bill Gates
When virtue meets smartness in a woman, you have a wife -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Whether it is moral or immoral, virtuous or malevolent, could mostly be captured to our perceptions. -- Gladys Adevey
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man. -- Diogenes
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. -- L.M. Montgomery
This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love. -- Elizabeth George
With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. -- Tracy Kidder
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. -- Confucius
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow. -- Adam Smith
If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized. -- Sunday Adelaja
Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Every virtuous man is free. -- Philo
Keep your analysis pure and virtuous. -- Theodor Billroth
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. -- Publilius Syrus
The world is ashamed of being virtuous. -- Laurence Sterne
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. -- Samuel Johnson
Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous. -- Heloise
You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous. -- Malcolm Forbes
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous. -- Jonathan V. Last
Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends. -- Elaine S. Dalton
A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him. -- Publilius Syrus
Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us. -- Philip Larkin
A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed. -- Benjamin Franklin
O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle. -- Philip Sidney
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. -- John Keats
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret. -- Gregory David Roberts
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease. -- Frances Wright
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. -- Richard Steele
...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life. -- A.C. Grayling
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. -- Joseph Butler
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian. -- Benjamin Franklin
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things. -- Martial
Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable. -- Delano Johnson
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action. -- Philip Sidney
No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen. -- Murray N. Rothbard
You can be a virtuous person without faith in God. -- Bill Bennett
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity. -- E. W. Howe
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer. -- Bayard Taylor
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives. -- George Herbert
like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth ... -- Joyce Carol Oates
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous. -- Samuel Richardson
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. -- Abdelkader El Djezairi
A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself -- Orson Scott Card
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. -- Francis Bacon
Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens. -- Thomas Jefferson
If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous? -- John Lyly
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. -- Henry David Thoreau
Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go. -- Shri Radhe Maa
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. -- Henry Fielding
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous -- Emily Bronte
In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true? -- Valmiki
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. -- Aristotle
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. -- Walter Bagehot
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. -- George Chapman
Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. -- Phyllis Schlafly
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others. -- Zengzi
There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey. -- Ann Radcliffe
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful. -- Paul Bourget
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous. -- Samuel Adams

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