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
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
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Frederick Douglass 
Samuel Butler 
Jean-Paul Sartre 
Maya Angelou 
Honore De Balzac 
Phyllis Schlafly 
Clive Owen 
William Harvey 
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams 
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne
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People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius
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