#virtue

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#believe #distinction #everywhere #had #i

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

#ever #guides #sciences #surest #virtue

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. ↗

— Martin Yan

#chinese #chinese culture #culture #general #lot

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers. ↗

— Tina Fey

#politics #professionalism #prostitution #virtues #dreams

Virtue can only flourish among equals. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#among #equals #flourish #only #virtue

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#honor #virtue #wicked #dreams

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance. ↗

— Thomas More

#virtue #beauty

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#esthetic #interesting #love #seduction #the-seducer-s-diary

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. ↗

— Akhenaton

#beautiful #beautiful woman #brighter #charms #enlighten

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made. ↗

— George Sand

#god #virtue #beauty