Virtuous Quotes - Page 3

• The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Men, Doe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

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• It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

  George Santayana

  Revenge, Passion, Thinking

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

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• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  George Washington

  Rights, Government, Long

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• Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

  Isadora Duncan

  One Direction, People, Purpose

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

  Confucius

  Men, Parent, Mind

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.7, BookCaps Study Guides

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• But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

  Aristotle

  Men, Soul, What Is Happiness

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• It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.

  Mark Levin

  Children, Makeup, Blood

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

  John of the Cross

  Inspirational, Long, Soul

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.86, ICS Publications

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• She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

  Emile Zola

  Passion, Self, Cold

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• 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

  Exercise, Atheism, Farce

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.37

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• I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

  Christopher Paolini

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  "Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 2)". Book by Christopher Paolini, August 23, 2005.

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• I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Believe, People, Merit

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

  Emily Bronte

  Poison, Moral, Your Presence

  Emily Bronte, Annabella Bloom (2010). “Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.183, Adams Media

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• You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Love You, Intelligent

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1024, e-artnow

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• We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Believe, Men, Lovely

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• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Francois Rabelais

  House, Useless, Arms

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• Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

  Umera Ahmed

  Painful, Born, Be Good

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• 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

  Quiet, Enough, Knows

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.164, Everyman's Library

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• It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Courage, Often Is, People

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Believe, Justice, Prejudice

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1335, Delphi Classics

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• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Social Values, Workplace

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House

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• All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Rights, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Joy, Helping, Spread

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• Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Lying, Selfish

  John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”

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• If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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