Virtue Quotes
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac
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Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.
Lao Tzu
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See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
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Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
Dante Alighieri
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Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Edward Topsell
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
Honore de Balzac
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The grandest virtue seems deficient.
Lao Tzu
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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
John Milton
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The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?
Denis Johnston
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Honore de Balzac
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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
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For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.
Plutarch
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Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
Lao Tzu
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The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.
David Roochnik
