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Virtuous Quotes - Page 2

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

Emily Bronte, Annabella Bloom (2010). “Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.183, Adams Media

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Sir Philip Sidney (1873). “The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney ...”, p.177

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.237

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

"Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 207,

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

A Curious Dream (1872) "Mental Photographs"

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

Joseph Butler, Joseph McKee (1847). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature”, p.69

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Wilhelm Stekel (2014). “The Depths of the Soul (Psychology Revivals): Psycho-Analytical Studies”, p.149, Routledge