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Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.


Julian Baggini

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
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EZEQUIEL D'LEON MASIS The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
PLATO Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.
CONFUCIUS Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
CONFUCIUS To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.
RACHEL DONALDSON JACKSON A happy life is a virtuous life.
OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
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UMERA AHMED For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
JAAN TALLINN There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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H. L. MENCKEN The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
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MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
WILLIAM PENN To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations
WILLIAM PENN Virtuous deeds make you great.
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LARRY DRAKE To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
VITTORIO ALFIERI To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked
VITTORIO ALFIERI No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
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PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.
KAKUZō OKAKURA Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
BIBLE Failure on merits is more virtuous than a victory through deceit and fraud.
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous
ARISTOTLE A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage
JOSEPH ADDISON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
MAHATMA GANDHI Who can find a virtuous woman?
For her price is far above rubies.
ANONYMOUS O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.
MURIEL SPARK Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
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CONFUCIUS The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect baseness in others.
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BRANDON SANDERSON I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle
HEINRICH HEINE The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
HONORE DE BALZAC Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
PAUL BOURGET A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.
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TAMMARA WEBBER Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.
SHANE WARNE Develop in yourself the capabilities to perform virtuous deeds.
SAM VEDA Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
MARK TWAIN The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfusca...
JEFF WEINER Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
ALEXANDER POPE We strive to be as virtuous as possible, but the truth is that any virtue can be malformed into a gr...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.
BILL BENNETT Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not...
H. L. MENCKEN From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,The place is dignified by the doer's deed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life!
ANGIE KARAN Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
JOSEPH ADDISON No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-we...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The dreaded part of being a woman, is when a virtuous lady has to marry and settle down immediately ...
MARCO OSCAR OZ I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous ...
DEBORAH SAMPSON He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitu...
CHANAKYA When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives
GEORGE HERBERT He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
THOMAS CARLYLE Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
EDMUND BURKE My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others bec...
MOLIèRE May is wonderful. She's the only one who was kind to Julian during that time.
CYNTHIA LENNON Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATO O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she prefer...
ÉMILE ZOLA Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is st...
JOHN WYCLIFFE If the king is virtuous, then the subjects are also virtuous. If the king is sinful, then the subjec...
CHANAKYA Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
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JULIAN CASABLANCAS You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL