#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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I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#deny #ever #get #guy #i

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

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

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

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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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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#different things #good #healthy #individuals #live

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

— Plato

#being #content #most #seeking #themselves