Virtue Quotes
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
Aristotle
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
E. W. Howe
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No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity
Ryunosuke Satoro
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
R. C. Sproul
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
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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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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Aristotle
