#virtuous

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#being #call #exercise #farce #own

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

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#most #opportunity #otherwise #plain #scarcity

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

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. ↗

— Jose Marti

#calm #controlled #encouragement #endeavor #give

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

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #distinguishes #err #felt #human

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#great man #man #never #same #time