Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works. — Paul Delaroche Copy Share Image
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan Copy Share Image
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. — Diodorus Siculus 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
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous. — Wilhelm Stekel Copy Share Image
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words,… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
“The true measure of a virtuous life is how we redeem time by deeds and the exemplification and personification of principles that… — Oliver Harper Copy Share Image
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous. — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Our modern-day society is often so consumed with external appearances that living a virtuous life may sound boring and dull. However, the… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the bureaucracy will be of the noblest and most virtuous sort, with no personal, political, or ideological agenda, motivated solely and… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If you accumulate virtuous actions properly— such as avoiding killing, freeing animals, and cultivating patience toward others—it will be beneficial in the… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a… — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
