Zitat des Tages über Tugendhaft / Virtuous:
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
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.
I think prosperity is a virtuous thing, and we need more of it in Montana.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
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.
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.
To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
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.
Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.
By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.