A Quote by Samuel Johnson

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Samuel Johnson

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Acts Count Vicious Virtuous Years

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

David Hume

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.

Vincent de Paul

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Samuel Butler

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.

Simon Soloveychik

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Carlos Castaneda

Not everything that counts can be counted. You can count sales. You can count fans and followers. You can count pins and tweets. But you can't count passion. You can't count commitment. You can't count engagement. You can't count relationships.

John Kremer

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

Philip Larkin

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Alexander Pope

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Thomas Aquinas

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

John Milton

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Benjamin Franklin

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.