#virtuous

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ↗

— Thomas Willis

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You can be a virtuous person without faith in God. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#god #person #virtuous #without #you

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#great man #man #never #same #time

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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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

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

#being #content #most #seeking #themselves

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#beautiful #capitalism #decadent #deliver #found

Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#ask #being #children #dozen #got

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

#force #passion #revenge #sometimes #superior