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Virtuous Quotes

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.
Authors on Virtuous Quotes: Benjamin Franklin Marcus Tullius Cicero Samuel Richardson Francois de La Rochefoucauld Publilius Syrus Honore de Balzac Confucius Walter Bagehot Elizabeth Barrett Browning Jason Isaacs Boethius Pauline Kael Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Zengzi David Rees Henry David Thoreau Wilhelm Stekel Elizabeth Bibesco Martial Nicholas D. Kristof Amity Shlaes Philo John Donne Laozi Al-Shafi‘i Henry Home, Lord Kames Theodor Billroth William Shakespeare Emily Bronte Mary Wollstonecraft Ann Radcliffe Joseph Butler Orson Scott Card
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

6.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous,
and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

9.
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
Elaine S. Dalton

13.
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft

14.
Every virtuous man is free.
Philo

15.
Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.
Heloise

16.
Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.
Theodor Billroth

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.
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

19.
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)
Charles Spurgeon

20.
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.
There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.
Confucius

23.
O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
Philip Sidney

24.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

25.
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
Confucius

26.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
Samuel Butler

27.
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
Laozi

28.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
Thomas Carlyle

29.
Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
Shri Radhe Maa

30.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
Mark Twain

31.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
George Chapman

32.
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
Zengzi

33.
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
James Gould Cozzens

34.
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
Publilius Syrus

35.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
Christian Nestell Bovee

36.
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
Henry David Thoreau

37.
You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.
Malcolm Forbes

38.
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
Joseph Butler

39.
I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.
Frances Wright

40.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
Benjamin Franklin

41.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Wilhelm Stekel

42.
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

43.
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
E. W. Howe

44.
Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

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.
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.
Samuel Adams

48.
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

49.
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
Martial

50.
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
C. S. Lewis