Virtuous Quotes - Page 22

• A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

  Simone Weil

  Pharisees, Beast, Obedience

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.169, Psychology Press

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• If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.

  Francis Quarles

  Children, Father, Parent

  "Enchiridion". Book by Francis Quarles. Book 3, XVIII, 1640-1641.

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• No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Struggle, Ideas

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.912, Bantam

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• Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Long, Honor

  "Gargantua (The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Book II)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1534.

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• Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe  cheurs; les autres pe  cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Two, People

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.7, no.534.

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• My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

  Charles Dickens

  Daughter, Bravery, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.275

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• The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doctors, Belief, Patient

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sex, Ignorance, Race

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• There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Meals, Fabric

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• Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Dresses, Saint, Modesty

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Teaching, Generations

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• Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sex, Fall, Eye

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• The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

  Ron Paul

  Wicked Person, Law, Grace

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• Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in the simplest ways, for example, by giving someone a hug. I send you a hug!

  Paul J. Zak

  Kindness, Oxytocin, Giving

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• Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
  And many maiden gardens yet unset,
  With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
  Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
  So should the lines of life that life repair
  Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
  Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
  Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238

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• There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Ninety Nine, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

  Confucius

  Greatness, Men, Honor

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.2, Delphi Classics

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• The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Wise, Long

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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• The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

  Philip Sidney

  Knowledge, Action, Ends

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• Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

  George Farquhar

  Women, Lying, Proud

  Joseph Addison, Mr. John Dryden, Richard Steele, William Shakespeare, Colley Cibber (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. V.”, p.21

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• For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For what order will be left in the world, if these opposites be confounded together? Such a distinction as this, therefore, between virtuous and vicious actions, has not only been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man, but has also been frequently confirmed by his providential dispensations.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Action

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• No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

  Mark Twain

  Desire, Riches, Poverty

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.157, Penguin

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• I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

  Mark Twain

  Twenties, Four, Deeds

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.860, Library of America

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• No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Common, Wealth, Maxims

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.279, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

  Laozi

  People, Trying, Vices

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