Virtue Quotes
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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.
Stephen Covey
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
Aristotle
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
Aristotle
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Wayne Rogers
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
Aristotle
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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.
Karl Barth
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Aristotle
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
Socrates
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
Aristotle
