To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.
Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
