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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.


Denis Diderot


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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.


John Donne


#breath #friends #go #goes #men

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.


James Boswell


#good #make #only #permitted #power

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.


William Harvey


#born #charm #die #eagles #fly

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#authority #being #cannot #obeys #rational

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.


Samuel Butler


#virtuous #will #you

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.


Jose Marti


#calm #controlled #encouragement #endeavor #give

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.


Lucretia Mott


#degradation #fountains #great #life #nation

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.


Jawaharlal Nehru


#least #most #often #own #person

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.


Clive Owen


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