The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman. — William Law Copy Share Image
A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice? — Julian Tuwim Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Properly understood, then, the scriptures counsel us to be virtuous not because romantic love is bad, but precisely because romantic love is… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous,… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind. — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
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