Virtue Quotes
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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
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He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
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Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.
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People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
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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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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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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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Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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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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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
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Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.
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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
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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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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
