Top 754 Virtuous Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I think prosperity is a virtuous thing, and we need more of it in Montana.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

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

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

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being moral requires some cognitive ability. If virtue is about desires, it is worth remembering that you can't desire some things without being able to conceive of them. Suppose a virtuous person will desire to make people happy and desire to tell the truth. You can't desire to make people happy without having the concept "happy" and you can't desire to be truthful if you don't have have the concept "lie", so a cat or a baby cannot desire these things.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

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

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

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

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

I am known for always playing virtuous characters.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

Investing is a virtuous habit best started as early as possible.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

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

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

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

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

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

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

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

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

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

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.