Virtue Quotes
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
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It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.
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I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.
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As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.
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It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.
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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
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You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
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No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
