Virtuous Quotes

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. - Bible

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings. - Jonathan Swift

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. - Ben Jonson

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected. - Friedrich Max Muller

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

What is there to be enjoyed in the world of Lord Indra for one whose wife is loving and virtuous, who possesses wealth, who has a well-behaved son endowed with good qualities, and who has a grandchildren born of his children? - Chanakya

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? - Nikita Khrushchev

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? - William Shakespeare

We should therefore act in such a way that gives opportunity to our virtuous tendencies to blossom. - Sam Veda