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Tag Name "Virtuous" (373)

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I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
Marcus Aurelius
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Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.
Daniel L Dreisbach
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Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]
Thurgood Marshall
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Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Gregory David Roberts
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot
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Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.
William Law
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You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.
Malcolm Forbes
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We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they can never take away our opportunity to train in inner virtues such as patience. It is this mental training, rather than outer virtuous activities, that is the essence of Dharma practice.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
William Shakespeare
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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
Ajahn Chah
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
Isabel Paterson
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Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.
Paul Delaroche
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Oscar Wilde
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So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
George Chapman
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
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A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
Friedrich Schiller
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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Richard Steele
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