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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
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
— Saskya Pandita
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.
— Alyssa Kress
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
— Francis Bacon
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
— William E. Gladstone
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
— Jonathan Swift
Women all have the same female pretentions and even the most virtuous among them like to convince themselves that they can tempt a man.
— Gabriel Chevallier
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
— George Santayana
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
— Benjamin Franklin
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
— Ben Jonson
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
— C.S. Lewis
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
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.
— Edward Young
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
— George Chapman
A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself
— Orson Scott Card
Every virtuous man is free.
— Philo
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
— Samuel Johnson
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
Only the virtuous man jumps over his shadow.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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
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
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
— Gautama Buddha
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
— Alexander Hamilton
In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.
— Marquis De Lafayette
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man.
— John Calvin
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
— Josh Billings
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero