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 
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin 
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev
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There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti
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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
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