#virtuous

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

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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#degradation #fountains #great #life #nation

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#least #most #often #own #person

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#country #friends #himself #i #man

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. ↗

— George Chapman

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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#been #country #every #itself #moment

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change. ↗

— Abdallah II

#change #cycle #event #our #own

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#half #i #i do #know #she

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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