Therefore virtuous acts also are a subject of the natural law.
Vice is directly contrary to virtue, even as sin to virtuous act: and so vice excludes virtue, just as sin excludes acts of virtue.
But it happens sometimes that a man fails to ordain a specifically indifferent action to a vicious orvirtuous end.
For the Stoics held that the soul's passions cannot be in a wise or virtuous man: whereas the Peripatetics, who were founded by Aristotle, as Augustine says (De Civ.
Further, the act of the intemperate man is his end, just as the act of the virtuous man is his end.
But acts of virtue are not common to all: since a thing is virtuous in one, and vicious in another.
Wherefore, as long as any virtuous inclinations remain, it cannot be said that man has the opposite vices or sins.
Now the imperfect, who as yet are not possessed of a virtuous habit, are directed in one way to perform virtuous acts, while those who are perfected by the possession of virtuous habits are directed in another way.
But it happens at times that men are virtuous and acceptable to God, without being vigorous in the use of reason.
I answer that, We may speak of virtuous acts in two ways: first, under the aspect of virtuous; secondly, as such and such acts considered in their proper species.
I would not insinuate that it is more than would be natural to the breast of any virtuous woman.
It was characteristic of her that she did not grow angry and indignant; nor, in a theatrical spirit, immediately attempt to impress him with the fact that she was a good, virtuous woman, and that his suggestion filled her with horror.
American public opinion is in favour of peace, and at the same time profoundly persuaded that America is wise and virtuous while all other Powers are foolish and wicked.
He was able to make the able and virtuous distinguished, and thence proceeded to the love of the nine classes of his kindred, who all became harmonious.
It was said that in the Academy there were more than three thousand students who were able and virtuous in nearly all respects, while the total enrolment, including aspirants from Korea and Japan, was as high as eight thousand.
At the same time, there was a system of "elections" through which able and virtuousmen were recommended by different districts to the Emperor for appointment to public offices.
The helplessness of the artist in a hard-headed business community has long been a commonplace of novelists and moralizers, and has made collectors feel virtuous when they bought up the pictures of painters who had died in penury.
Do you consider the morals of your sick folks--whether they have lived virtuous and upright lives when they come to you stricken and in pain?
I go gamboling down the primrose path of dalliance with a lady on each arm--or maybe more, I am haled before the calif and sentenced to his large and virtuous displeasure.
It is impossible to see, without horror, into what aberrations of reason and of moral sense men otherwise most enlightened and virtuous may be led away by the predominant ideas of their age.
We accept thy promise, now return thee this, A virtuous wife: accept her with a kiss.
I think, even as a virtuous maiden should; It may be that report may, from thy mouth, Beget some pity from her flinty heart, And I will urge her with it presently.
Seek virtuous wives, all husbands will be blest; Fair wives are good, but virtuous wives are best.
Than marriage nothing in the world more common; Nothing more rare than such a virtuous woman.
Virtuous men do right at all times, even under trials, iii.
Those who in the virtuouslife are seeking for pleasures of another kind are actually seeking something else than the virtuous life.
All will be equally beautiful, and, perhaps, so much the more beautiful as the virtuous man will find himself placed amidst more critical circumstances.
The actions of the virtuous man could not be hindered by fortune, but they may vary with the fluctuations of fortune.
Virtuous man can suffer only in the lower part, i.
Neither should we expect the divinities to renounce their blissful existence to come and administer our affairs; nor that the virtuous men, whose life is holy and superior to human conditions, should be willing to govern the wicked.
It might indeed still be objected that he cannot be happy if he remain virtuous without feeling it, without acting in conformity with virtue.
When virtuous men are in that condition (of absence of self-consciousness), their life is more intense because it concentrates in itself instead of mingling with feeling.
They are even jealous of the man who is good by himself; there would indeed be more good people if virtuous men were chosen as chiefs.
To have an expression of eye that meant murder, and yet to be a perfectlyvirtuous and well-meaning animal, this was a calamity indeed.
But in the society of an intelligent and virtuous female, there is a charm that removes the pressure.
Nothing is degrading that is virtuous and honest; and where honesty and virtue are, there alone is true nobility, though their owner be a hewer of wood.
I can say with truth and heartfelt satisfaction that a more virtuous people does not exist in any country.
I would willingly have met for the first time in a different way the brave conqueror of Sapor, the avenger of the wrongs and insults of the virtuous Valerian.
If, with such a belief, you could turn back your eye upon as faultless and virtuous a life as you have passed, you would cast it forward with feelings far from those of indifference.
The temperate and virtuous Epicurus little thought that his name and doctrine would in after times be the rallying point for the licentious and dissolute.
Philosophers have long ago taught that the only safe and happy life is a virtuous life.
Gione already interrupted me: "And every virtuous and wise being is in himself a proof of immortality.
Must the soul of Socrates, imprisoned in Borgia's body as in a mud-bath, lose its moral powers, and does it suddenly change its virtuous qualities for vicious ones?
They believe in the transmigration of souls, and they say that virtuous souls pass into Chinese Druses, but those of the wicked into dogs or camels.
It was a letter with this address: 'The Quakers of Congenies-Calvisson to the virtuous Fox.
We endeavored to show them that no people can be happy or prosperous while woman holds a degraded position among them, and that it is in vain to look for great men where good and virtuous mothers are not to be found.
Julian expected, too, that pagans would worship their old gods and yet live the virtuous lives of Christians; and he was disappointed and grieved to find that no works of goodness or mercy sprang from those who followed his belief.
Octavia tried to win him back, but she was a grave, virtuous Roman matron, and coarse, dissipated Antonius did not care for her compared with the enticing Egyptian queen.
Nor would it be just to Homer and his Olympus to forget, that in yielding to the powerful party led by Juno, Neptune, and Minerva, Jupiter was also yielding up the vicious, and sealing the triumph of the virtuous cause.
Again it might be thought that the reason for the advancement of Menelaus to Elysium, while Castor and Pollux belong to the under-world, was the very virtuous character of that prince.
I am come to pray of you, fair sire, the hand of your virtuous maid in marriage.
Moreover the first wife that I had was so virtuous and so fair, and so dearly did I love her in my heart for her exceeding goodlihead, that never is she absent from my thoughts.
For many years King Florus lived happily with his virtuous wife, and when it was the will of God that his days should end, he took back to his Maker a stainless soul.
O, where is the godly example, that parents should give Unto their young family by godly and virtuous living?
She conspires with Acmat to inflame Levan Dadian with desire for her (her portrait was enough) and to bring about a meeting even though that prince was bringing home with him his virtuous bride, Bassima, princess of Colchis.
I might have lived happy with my virtuous wife, Kept away from temptation, from tumult and strife, I'd enough to support me in happiness to live, But I wanted something more poor people for to give.
The virtuous and the honest have long been in bed.
Yet in commending the study of this book to every virtuous and patriotic Englishman, I must firmly remind the reader, that all these sins and errors are only the branches from one root of bitterness--mortal Pride.
Queen Catharine, besides being a virtuous and excellent woman, was powerfully allied, and was a zealous Catholic.
The virtuous are too scrupulous to go the lengths which are necessary to rouse the people against their tyrants.
The popes were generallyvirtuous characters, and munificent patrons of genius.
It never looks at any vile or base thing, but rather clings always to pure and virtuous things and takes up its abode in a noble heart; as the birds do in green woods on flowery branches.
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuousthings are in favour with God.
No man has it in him to be virtuous who will give up honour for gain.
He was a pious and prudent man, She a discreet and virtuous woman.
She had various but virtuous adventures, and married a non-com.
They brought good wishes and a present to the bride of the village, the virtuous and beautiful Mouni, from whom they would gladly receive information concerning a European lady.
