Virtuous quotes
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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 are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
-- Bertrand Russell -
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
-- Boethius -
The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
-- Bruce Jay Friedman -
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
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The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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.
-- Confucius -
Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
-- Elaine S. Dalton -
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
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I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
-- Frances Wright -
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.
-- Heloise -
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
-- James Gould Cozzens -
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.
-- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo -
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
-- John Donne -
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
-- Jonathan V. Last -
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
-- Joseph Butler -
Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
-- Mark Twain -
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
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.
-- Norm MacDonald -
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A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself
-- Orson Scott Card -
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
-- Pauline Kael -
Every virtuous man is free.
-- Philo -
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
-- Plato -
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For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
-- Richard Steele -
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.
-- Samuel Adams -
I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.
-- Sarada Devi -
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Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
-- Shri Radhe Maa -
Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.
-- Theodor Billroth -
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
-- Vittorio Alfieri -
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
-- W. S. Gilbert -
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
-- Walter Bagehot -
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
-- Wilhelm Stekel -
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
-- Zengzi -
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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.
-- David Rees -
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
-- George Chapman -
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.
-- Henry Home, Lord Kames -
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 -
