#virtuous

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

#appropriate #because #conditions #diverse #happens

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. ↗

— James Boswell

#good #make #only #permitted #power

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#man #nor #obeys #soul #virtuous

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#among #comes #every #fact #grief

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.' ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#cooler #i #i can #more #nicer

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ↗

— Confucius

#constraints #inspire #often #people #revenge

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

#life #nation #only #secure #truthful