Virtuous Quotes

458 quotes by 300 authors

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. — Mason Cooley
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. — Denis Diderot
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. — Frederick Douglass
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice;… — Terry Eagleton
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. — Havelock Ellis
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully… — Aldous Huxley
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent.… — John Maynard Keynes
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? — Nikita Khrushchev
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. — Martin Luther
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. — Niccolo Machiavelli
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable… — Jose Marti
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. — Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. — George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed… — George Santayana
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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