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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
— Oscar Wilde
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy. In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together. — Joseph Addison
No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
— Elaine S. Dalton
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
— Ivan Panin
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
— Sigmund Freud
Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.
— Colleen McCullough
You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.
— Elaine S. Dalton
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
— Joseph Joubert
A virtuous failure is better than a successful devil.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.
— William Congreve
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
— Plato
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
— Richard Steele
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
— George Chapman
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
a virtuous person,
— David Eagleman
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
— C.S. Lewis
If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
— Samuel Johnson
Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.
— Paul Delaroche
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.
— Margaret Of Valois
No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.
— Murray N. Rothbard
A virtuous esculent!
— Patrick O'Brian
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.
— Sathya Sai Baba
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
— Henry David Thoreau
O you virtuous owle,The wise Minerva's only fowle. — Philip Sidney
We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
— Havelock Ellis
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.
— Bill Bennett
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
— Bertrand Russell
the positive Warrior energy destroys only what needs to be destroyed in order for something new and fresh, more alive and more virtuous to appear.
— Robert L. Moore
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
— Chanakya
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
— William Penn
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
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
— Nikita Khrushchev
Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth ...
— Joyce Carol Oates
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.
— Anthony Liccione
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
— Frances Wright
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho's and B****'s are virtuous titles.
— Delano Johnson
Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
— Brandon Sanderson
Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man.
— John Calvin
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
— Peter Kreeft
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
— Wilhelm Stekel
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
— James Monroe
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there' (Ez. 35:10)
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
— Philip Sidney
A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
— Benjamin Franklin
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
— Vittorio Alfieri
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
— Seneca The Younger
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
— Max Beerbohm
Only the virtuous man jumps over his shadow.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.
— Theodor Billroth
Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.
— Travis Berketa
He thought that if there were a God, His essence was in the virtuous innocence of the children.
— Pete Conrad
To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective - a virtuous society - America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.
— Patrick Mendis
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
— Laurence Sterne
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
— Diodorus Siculus
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore De Balzac
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld