Aristotle 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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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Kevin Spacey
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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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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Saint Augustine
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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
Archibald Alexander
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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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When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.
Marianne Williamson
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We're dealing with 15 regulatory agencies as it is, so anything that makes it more stringent or tougher to mine is going to be bad news for the coal industry.
Don Gibson
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
Diogenes
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The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Larry Page
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He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.
Pythagoras
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle