Virtuous Quotes

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

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

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

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

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.