Virtue Quotes
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss...
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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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.
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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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Virtue lies in the middle ground.
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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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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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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.