1.
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
Al-Shafi‘i
The most esteemed among us are those oblivious to their rank, and the most righteous of them are those unaware of their own goodness.
2.
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac
3.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
4.
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
Boethius
5.
Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
Ludwig van Beethoven
7.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
8.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
10.
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
Pauline Kael
11.
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
Nicholas D. Kristof
12.
Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.
Heloise
13.
Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
Elaine S. Dalton
15.
Every virtuous man is free.
Philo
17.
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
Saint Augustine
18.
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)
Charles Spurgeon
19.
There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.
Jason Isaacs
21.
Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous
Emily Bronte
22.
O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle.
Philip Sidney
23.
There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.
Confucius
24.
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
Laozi
25.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
Thomas Carlyle
26.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
27.
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
Confucius
29.
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
Zengzi
30.
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
James Gould Cozzens
34.
Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
Shri Radhe Maa
35.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
Mark Twain
36.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
George Chapman
37.
You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.
Malcolm Forbes
38.
I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.
Frances Wright
39.
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
Joseph Butler
41.
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Benjamin Franklin
42.
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
E. W. Howe
44.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Wilhelm Stekel
45.
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
W. S. Gilbert
46.
For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson
47.
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
Elizabeth Bibesco
48.
Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.
Amity Shlaes
50.
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power;
the more virtuous she is,
the more effective her coquetry.
Honore de Balzac