#virtuous

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness. ↗

— Alfred the Great

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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#enlightened #maiden #monarch #obsolete #repertory

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#act #because #difficult #even #evil

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.
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— Jarod Kintz

#change #chivalrous #hope #miserable #misery

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets. ↗

— Matthew

#virtuous #men

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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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

#before #betraying #connections #country #feeling

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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