Virtuous Quotes - Page 12

• The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Shunning, Overcoming, Virtuous Woman

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• It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Virtue, Easy

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• Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.

  John Adams

  Wise, People, Republic

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

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• Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

  Lucan

  Wisdom, Wish, Politics

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• Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Wife, Virtuous Woman, Found

  Lyndon W. Cook, William Law (1994). “William Law”, Grandin Book Co

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• My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Daughter, Liars, Men

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• Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, People

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• Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Common, Praise

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• The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Complacency, Vices

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• Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Speech, Truthful

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• Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Order, Practice, Roots

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• If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Nice, Believe

  "Scientists divided over alliance with religion" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2007.

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• All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Women, Eye, Heart

  Jeremy Taylor (1849). “The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ: The Saviour of the World”, p.67

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• If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vices, Would Be

  Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.191

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• We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.

  Mark Levin

  Tired, Class, Sick

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

  Philip Sidney

  Wise, Minerva

  Sir Philip Sidney (1873). “The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney ...”, p.177

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• Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Communication, Mean

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• The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

  Voltaire

  Men, Doe, Prudent

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2036, e-artnow

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• The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

  Edward Young

  Life, Fate, Men

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.34

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• Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their “discernment.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Names, People

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• A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

  William Ellery Channing

  Together, Bricks, Dignity

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.7

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

  George Chapman

  Men, Virtuous Woman, Values

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• Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Age, Youth

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.3

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• Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

  George Chapman

  Men, Her Beauty, Littles

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• 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

  Thinking, Playing Someone, I Can

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