The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. — William Goffe Copy Share Image
Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The virtuous Man can afford a bad Memory, the Despicable burrows his own Grave.” — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C. S. Lewis 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
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
I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance,… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and… — Anonymous 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
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
The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the… — Isabel Paterson 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
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant 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
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their… — Kenneth Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Money in the opinion of the world, makes a man wise and virtuous; the want of it, foolish and wicked. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
