Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

  

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• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

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• The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

  

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• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

  

  M. C. Escher
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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!

  

  Emile Zola
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• I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

  

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• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

  

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• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

  

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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 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.

  

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• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

  

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• Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

  

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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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• We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

  

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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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• The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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• Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

  

  Lois McMaster
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• War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.

  

  Errol Morris
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• In other words: If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
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• Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Virtue
  • Punctuality
  • Don't Mind