Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius Copy Share Image
No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find. — Buju Banton Copy Share Image
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“never seem unable to find a reason for thinking I am being virtuous when I make excuses for myself.” — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The world is but a (quick passing) enjoyment; and the best enjoyment of the world is a pious and virtuous woman. — Hazrat Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him Copy Share Image
“Let them judge you, but remain virtuous. Let them criticize you, but remain wise. Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
You must do the asana with your soul. How can you do an asana with your soul? We can only do it… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a… — Miguel de Cervantes 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
Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved… — George Antheil Copy Share Image
There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Money in the opinion of the world, makes a man wise and virtuous; the want of it, foolish and wicked. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
