It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
Tom G. Palmer

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
George Chapman

Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.
Eli Khamarov

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

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Buddha

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
Phyllis Schlafly

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

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
John Maynard Keynes

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Percy Bysshe Shelley