#virtuous

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. ↗

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle. ↗

#benefits #canadians #circle #enjoy #now

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

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

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. ↗

— Martin Luther

#fail #first #must #people #perform

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

#among #comes #every #fact #grief

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. ↗