Carolyn Wells Quotes
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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.
Han Fei
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller
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We all know that a call-up to the Springboks (South Africa national team) is a major achievement and the rewards, especially financial, are huge.
Ashley Johnson
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
Lisa See
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Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
Bill Vaughan
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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.
Aristotle
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
Aristotle
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
Aristotle
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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.
Aristotle
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In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
Aristotle