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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

Sue Grafton

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• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

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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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• 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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• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  

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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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• Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... 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.

  

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• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  

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• In the soul one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

  

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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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• The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

  

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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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• ...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

  

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• There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

  

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• If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence, 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 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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• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  

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• Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

  

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• Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

  

  Sue Grafton
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