Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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 -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler -
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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 -
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza -
As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein -
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 -
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson -
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 -
Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
Ma Jaya
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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 -
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
Napoleon Hill -
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 -
Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
Bill Vaughan -
I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
Brian Andreas -
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.
Zac Efron -
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
R.K. Narayan -
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal