Sue Grafton Quotes
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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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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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Any peace is better than any war.
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If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.
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You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
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Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.
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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
