A Quote by Samuel Butler
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
Still, vicious or virtuous,
Love suits most of us.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
Young women you will be the ones who will provide the example of virtuous womanhood and motherhood. You will continue to be virtuous lovely praiseworthy and of good report. You will also be the ones to provide an example of family life in a time when families are under attack, being redefined and disintegrating. You will understand your roles and your responsibilities and thus will see no need to lobby for rights.
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.
Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.
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