Virtuous Quotes

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.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous,
and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

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.

Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.

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

Every virtuous man is free.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.

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.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

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

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

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

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

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

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

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

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

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

Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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

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

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

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

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

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

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

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

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

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

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

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

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

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

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

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