Virtuous Quotes
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .
There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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.
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.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.
People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative