#virtuous

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. ↗

— George Santayana

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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#blood #enough #give #i #i am

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#job #problem #sexual #virtuous #women

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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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

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. ↗

— William Harvey

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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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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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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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