Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.” — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost. — Bonnie L. Oscarson Copy Share Image
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly… — H. A. Guerber 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
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of life to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of… — David O. McKay 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
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
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10) — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
