Definition of Virtuous

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Virtuous

Possessing or exhibiting virtue.

Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.

Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.

Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.

Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.

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Virtuous Quotations

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

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

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

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift

Virtuous Translations

virtuous in French is vertueux
virtuous in German is tugendhaft, tugendhaften
virtuous in Italian is virtuoso
virtuous in Spanish is virtuoso
virtuous in Swedish is dygdig, kraftig

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