Virtue Quotes
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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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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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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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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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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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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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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
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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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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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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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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious 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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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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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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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
