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"Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous." »James Gould Cozzens
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"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
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"Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man." »Joseph Addison, Cato
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"For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous." »Publilius Syrus
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"Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind." »Walter Bagehot
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"The strong and virtuous admit no destiny." »Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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"The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things." »Marcus Valerius Martialis
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"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous." »C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds." »William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
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"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
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"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
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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
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"?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done." »Mahabharata
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"As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours waft from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savour spreads To distant lands of virtuous deeds." »Sanskrit Proverb
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand." »Confucius
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"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"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
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"'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
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"Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him." »South
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"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption." »Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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"Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired." »The Hitopadesa
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"The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still." »Panchatantra
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"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
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"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
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"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 Bulwer-Lytton
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