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
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius
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
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
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.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther
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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