Virtue Quotes
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Frances Wright
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Aristotle
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
Aristotle
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
Norman Thomas
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
Aristotle
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Plato
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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.
Molly Ivins
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel
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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.
R. H. Tawney
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Virtue is no empty echo.
Friedrich Schiller
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving Babbitt
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl
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Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
J. Paul Getty
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Confucius