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Letter "V" » virtuous
«The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.»
Author: Lucretia Mott
(Social Reformer)
| About:
Life,
Nations,
Women,
World
| Keywords:
degradation, fountains, poisoned, virtuous
«The world and all things in it are valuable; but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman»
«Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
(Dancer)
| Keywords:
around, at leisure, concentrated, concentrates, direction, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, have-not, leisure, live in, purposes, state, sufficiently, tempted, They Live, vegetative, virtuous
«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.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
anxious, disposition, moral character, namely, statesman, The Statesman, virtuous
«Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.»
«The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.»
«Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life / Into that moral centaur, man and wife?»
«The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitions, capacities, Happy ending, possessions, proportion, The Happy Ending, virtuous
«The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.»
«What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?»
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