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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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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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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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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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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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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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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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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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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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
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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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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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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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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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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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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious 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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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
