Glances Quote by Isadora Duncan

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

— Plato

Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do it gladly.

— Doctor Anil Sinha

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage,…

— Martin Seligman

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

— Julian Baggini

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

— E. W. Howe

“What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise”

— Eric Nicol

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

— Anonymous

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

— Joseph Joubert

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

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

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

— Frances Wright