When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle. — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of… — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“And ’tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress. ’Tis she alone, if she… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch… — Saadi Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds — William Congreve Copy Share Image
No matter how popular a Lie is, it can never overpower the virtuous of Truth. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure. — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Were there no law there'd be no law-breakers, So all men would be virtuous.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
