Virtue Quotes
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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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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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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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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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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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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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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed
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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.
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Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
