Virtuous Quotes - Page 9

• What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Liberty, Affair

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• How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Long, Retrospect

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

  H. L. Mencken

  Socialism, Slave, Theory

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• So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

  Mark Levin

  Elderly, Medicine, Sick

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, May, Industrious

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• The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Medicine, Hygiene

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.12, Vintage

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• As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Mistake, Fall, Views

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• Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

  Chanakya

  Tree, Dry, Fool

  "The Agni and the Ecstasy: Collected Essays of Steven J. Rosen". Book by Steven J. Rosen, June 2012.

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• What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, People

  "Presumptions Of The Left". townhall.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

  Aristotle

  Children, Eye, Differences

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• We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Rich, Ingenious

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• It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

  Christopher Jones

  Desire, Virtue, Strive

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• Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

  Barbara Sher

  Judgmental, Cop, Behavior

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.66, Dell

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• Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Command Not, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.386, JHU Press

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• It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sake, Virtue

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• I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Race, Discovery

  "What I Believe" by H. L. Mencken, The Forum (American magazine), Volume 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

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• I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Gratitude, Children

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.48

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• Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Heaven, Favour, Fame

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.598, Delphi Classics

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• The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wall, Distance, Flower

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1842). “Don Quixote”, p.165

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• The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

  Samuel Adams

  People, Heaven, Enjoy

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.  The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.  The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

  Laozi

  Self, People, Subsidies

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• Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Humble, Names, Grace

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• If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

  Paul Krugman

  Evil, Wicked, Reborn

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• No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.

  Buju Banton

  Wasting My Time, Virtuous Woman, Hard

  Song: I Wanna Be Loved, Album: 'Til Shiloh, 1995

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• A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christian, Wicked, Heretic

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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