#virtuous

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ↗

— Plato

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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

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#chaste #most #never #something #them

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

#virtuous #inspirational

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

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.
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— Jarod Kintz

#change #chivalrous #hope #miserable #misery

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

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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