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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.

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

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

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue. — Al-Shafi'i

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.' — Jason Isaacs

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

Who can find a virtuous woman?
For her price is far above rubies. — Anonymous

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

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul. — Aristotle.

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

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan

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

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius

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

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. — Plato

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

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. — Emile Zola

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

The desire for liberation arises in human beings at the end of many births, through the ripening of their past virtuous conduct. — Anonymous

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

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men. — Voltaire

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous. — Barbara Sher

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

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity. — E.W. Howe

Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho's and B****'s are virtuous titles. — Delano Johnson

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience. — John Milton

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

I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself? — Will Advise

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

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. — Ayn Rand

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous. — Jerome Kagan

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. — John Keats

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

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. — Confucius

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