Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
There is much that is difficult and challenging in the world today, my brothers and sisters, but there is also much that is good and uplifting. As we declare in our thirteenth article of faith, 'If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. ' May we ever continue to do so.
Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.
There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
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)
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
. . . mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both. . . Not both.
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.