#virtuous

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

— Maya Angelou

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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

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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 being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#authority #being #cannot #obeys #rational

Be virtuous and you will be vicious. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#virtuous #will #you

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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

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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

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