Virtue Quotes
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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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
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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.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Prudence is the virtue of that part of the intellect the calculative to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
