Virtuous Quotes

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

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.

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.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

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.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.