| "Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous." »James Gould Cozzens |
| "As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action." »Maitri Upanishads |
| "For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous." »Publilius Syrus |
| "The strong and virtuous admit no destiny." »Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton |
| "Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind." »Walter Bagehot |
| "The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things." »Marcus Valerius Martialis |
| "It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good." »Josh Billings |
| "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." »George Santayana |
| "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 |
| "As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense." »Jonathan Swift |
| "Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand." »Confucius |
| "The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions." »Martin Luther |
| "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." »Buddha |
| "'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny." »E. R. Bulwer-Lytton |
| "Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love." »Reinhold Niebuhr |
| "One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous." »Aldous Huxley |
| "Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other." »Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton |
| "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it." »Confucius |
| "If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has." »Confucius |
| "Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner |
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