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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.
I'm not a vegetarian. But I think people who are vegetarians, they are actually more virtuous than the rest of us. I think they should be admired.
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.
Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together.
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.
There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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.
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
