Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have… — Seth Copy Share Image
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. — Max Beerbohm 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
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius Copy Share Image
none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater… — Sophie von La Roche Copy Share Image
A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
