Virtuous

Famous quotes containing the word virtuous:

“Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It’s clear you’re not the virtuous sort.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)