Virtue Quotes
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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.
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To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
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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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Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
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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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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
