Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous. — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation, — Jeff Weiner Copy Share Image
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place,… — Confucius 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
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
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
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
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
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
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
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
With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What… — Daisaku Ikeda 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
“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
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
“You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are… — Geshe Gyeltsen 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
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea what cops really do. They think cops give you a speeding ticket. They don't see the cops… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting… — Chanakya 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
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you’ll be good.” — Herminia Ibarra Copy Share Image
“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.” — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“I believe it to be true that if men were virtuous, they would have no friends.” — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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