The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10) — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a vegetarian. But I think people who are vegetarians, they are actually more virtuous than the rest of us. I… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Such attributes as virtue or intelligence aren't additive. It's absurd to maintain that two evil people can somehow be more virtuous than… — L Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their… — Kenneth Bacon Copy Share Image
In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“... he paraphrased his father's favourite saint, Augustine: Lord, make my wife virtuous, but not yet.” — Zin Murphy Copy Share Image
For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
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