Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste."
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Virtuous
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Boethius
Philosopher, Theologian
"He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful."
Jawaharlal Nehru
Politician, Prime Minister
"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
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"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
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"It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits."
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"There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade."
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"Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous"
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"There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous."
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"The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear."
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"Be virtuous and you will be vicious."
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"He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living."
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"The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue."
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"Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous."
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"The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable."
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"Be virtuous and you will be eccentric."
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"A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian."
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"I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest."
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"Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous."
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"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences."
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"Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery."
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"She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)"
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"No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth."
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"A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed."
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