Virtuous Quotes - Page 21

• They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

  Norm MacDonald

  Principles, Ordinary, May

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• A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--
  To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

  William Shakespeare

  Done, Praying, Christianity

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1460, Delphi Classics

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• The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

  Joseph Addison

  Innocent Person, Enemy, Criticism

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.80

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

  Tom G. Palmer

  Healthy, Different, Individual

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.38, Cato Institute

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• Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

  Jacques Chirac

  Circles, World, Weapons

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Virtue, Fortunate

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

  Joseph Butler

  Virtue, Advantage

  Joseph Butler, Joseph McKee (1847). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature”, p.69

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• As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

  Ivan Panin

  Talking, Mouths, Honey

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• Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Circles, Citizens

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.480, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.

  Clement Greenberg

  Sin, Enough, Accepted

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.31, Beacon Press

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• The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Ease

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.446

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• There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

  Aristotle

  Jobs, Men, Impossible

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• Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.

  William J. Clinton

  Circles, People, Progress

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• To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, Enthusiasm, Modern

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Teaching

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.237

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• The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.

  Kenneth Bacon

  Children, War, School

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• By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Ecosystems, Climate

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• I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mean, People, Wicked

  "A Long Fatal Love Chase". Book by Louisa May Alcott, 1995.

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• In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Men, Ideas, Looks

  "Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette" by Jules Germain Cloquet, (Vol. I, p. 24), 1836.

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• I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

  Mary MacLane

  Fire, Feelings, Genius

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.116, Petrarca Press

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• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
  You may partake of any thing we say:
  We speak no treason, man; we say the King
  Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
  Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
  We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
  A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
  And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Queens, Kings

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

  Henry Fielding

  Buying, Talent, Pleasure

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• The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a tantric text. In opening with a discussion of the three aims of ancient Hindu life – dharma, artha and kama – Vatsyayana's purpose is to set kama, or enjoyment of the senses, in context. Thus dharma or virtuous living is the highest aim, artha, the amassing of wealth is next, and kama is the least of three.

  Indra Sinha

  Religious, Art, Sex

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• For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Love Is, Cast Away

  Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

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