Virtuous Quotes
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
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Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
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Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.
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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
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So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.
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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
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The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
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Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.
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Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
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Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
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Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
