Herbert Spencer Quotes
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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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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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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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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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
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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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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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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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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
