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.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • True
  • Hand
  • Virtue

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Virtue
  • Concerned
  • Prefer

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Economy
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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
  • World
  • Why
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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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• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

  

  John Tillotson
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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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Virtue

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Extremes
  • Vice

• 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
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Matters

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Virtue

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Happiness
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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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
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  • Order

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Next
  • Consider

• A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Emotion

• All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Dealing
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• Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

  

  William Hazlitt
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  • Modesty

• Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Family
  • Running
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• Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

  

  Confucius
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• A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Experience
  • Fight
  • Virtue

• It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

  

  Plutarch
  • Virtue
  • Revelation
  • Battles

• Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • War
  • Ambition

• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Virtue

• It'd be a pretty cool situation. It seems like it's becoming more and more possible each game.

  

  Chris Kaman
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Possible

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

  

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