Virtuous Quotes

458 quotes by 300 authors

When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own… — Confucius
A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings… — Gautama Buddha
Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered… — Gautama Buddha
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. — Plato
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. — Plato
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if… — Gautama Buddha
Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are… — Ken Schoolland
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next — Gautama Buddha
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely… — Allen Lacy
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by… — Ernest Belfort Bax
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… — H. L. Mencken
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good… — Samuel Johnson
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as… — Naomi Wolf
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of… — Heinrich Heine
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now,… — John Donne
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded… — Mary Wollstonecraft
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. — Christine de Pizan

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