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
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several… — Francis Hutcheson 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
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
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan Copy Share Image
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute,… — John Milton 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
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
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
