George Eliot Quotes
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
