Virtuous Quotes
For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.
It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.
none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.
Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.
Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it
The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.
Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.
The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.
Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
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.
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.
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.
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
