Top Virtuous Quotes
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri
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
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore De Balzac
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch 
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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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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
Paul Martin
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Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.
Eli Khamarov
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I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.
Clive Owen
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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
Andrew Jackson
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
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Popular Virtuous Authors
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