Virtue Quotes
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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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Patience is not a virtue!
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
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Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
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There is explosive power in virtue.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
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Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.
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Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.
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When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
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If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.
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And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.
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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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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?
