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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 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Publilius Syrus Honore de Balzac Confucius Marcus Tullius Cicero Samuel Richardson Martial Nicholas D. Kristof Wilhelm Stekel Elizabeth Bibesco Philo John Donne Laozi Amity Shlaes Henry Home, Lord Kames Theodor Billroth Al-Shafi‘i Mary Wollstonecraft William Shakespeare Emily Bronte Joseph Butler Orson Scott Card Ann Radcliffe Mark Twain Thomas Carlyle Charles Spurgeon George Chapman Saint Augustine Bayard Taylor Philip Sidney Jonathan V. Last Malcolm Forbes
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.
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft

13.
Every virtuous man is free.
Philo

14.
Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.
Heloise

15.
Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
Elaine S. Dalton

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

25.
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
Laozi

26.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
Thomas Carlyle

27.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

28.
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
Confucius

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

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

39.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
Benjamin Franklin

40.
You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.
Malcolm Forbes

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

42.
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
E. W. Howe

43.
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

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

45.
For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson

46.
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
W. S. Gilbert

47.
The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.
David Rees

48.
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

49.
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
Jonathan V. Last

50.
Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.
Amity Shlaes