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
If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I'm not a vegetarian. But I think people who are vegetarians, they are actually more virtuous than the rest of us. I… — Tyler Cowen 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
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski 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
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step. — Mary N. Cook Copy Share Image
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public… — James Madison 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
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
Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
