We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures. — Susanna Rowson 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
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous. — James Gould Cozzens 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
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long… — Harry Graham Copy Share Image
It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of… — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise… — Confucius Copy Share Image
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“And ’tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress. ’Tis she alone, if she… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think the problem is, if we foreclose any public justice, then we cut off the virtuous cycle that's represented by law,… — Martha Minow 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
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the… — Joe Ehrmann Copy Share Image
My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or… — Hugh Hewitt Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Some men have been virtuous blindly, others have speculated fantastically, and others have been shrewd to bad purposes; but you, sir, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin 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
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and… — Ann M. Dibb Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image