Top Virtuous Quotes
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore De Balzac
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Thomas Willis
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
Jose Marti 
John Donne 
Percy Bysshe Shelley 
Aldous Huxley All Virtuous Quotes
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
Lucretia Mott 
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Henry Ellis
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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
Tom G. Palmer
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
Saskya Pandita
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
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Popular Virtuous Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldMason CooleyBenjamin FranklinSamuel Butler Plato AristotleGeorge SantayanaAldous HuxleyHonore De BalzacSamuel Richardson ConfuciusJonathan SwiftJean-Paul SartreDenis DiderotMartin Luther
Niccolo MachiavelliMaya AngelouSaint Thomas AquinasJose MartiAndrew JacksonWalter BagehotPercy Bysshe ShelleyFrancois RabelaisPhyllis SchlaflyHeinrich HeineJawaharlal NehruHenry EllisMikhail BakuninIris MurdochFrederick Douglass
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