Best 64 quotes in «virtuous quotes» category

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

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

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

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

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

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.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

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.

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)

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Every person who is satisfied, content and happy thinks his understanding of happiness is truest because that is what he is experiencing. So, a virtuous person would subscribe his happiness to his virtuous deeds while an evil person would subscribe his happiness to his vices. Since a corrupt person has never lived a virtuous life, he will possibly never know the euphoria one derives from doing good deeds.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Being a victim doesn’t make one virtuous.

Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .

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

A happy life is a virtuous life.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

Fine manners and dignity are taught by the heart, not the dancing master.

If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized.

In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process. In today’s China, the latter is taken care of by capitalism and commerce. The former, however, needs to be taken care of by the rule of law. Otherwise, the system of governance is corrupted by unrestrained individual desires and selective enforcement of ‘virtue’ or law.

Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Looking toward the Polish Rider she met his calm tender gentle thoughtful gaze. She thought, what he sees is the face of death. He sees the silence of the valley, its emptiness, its innocence — and beyond it the hideous field of war on which he will die. And his poor horse will die too. He is courage, he is love, he loves what is good, and will die for it, his body will be trampled by horses' hooves, and no one will know his grave. She thought, he is so beautiful, he has the beauty of goodness.

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?