Virtue Quotes
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[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.
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The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.
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I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.
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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
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I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
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To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
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Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
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This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level. Because he's presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- don't exist now. And he's mad.
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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
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The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.
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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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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.
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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
