Virtue Quotes
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
Eugene Delacroix
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Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
Elena Ferrante
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No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
Esther Hicks
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
Eugene O'Neill
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudius Claudianus
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Reward is its own virtue.
Carolyn Wells
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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
Ernest Renan
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller
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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
Melissa de la Cruz
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
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I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Terry Eagleton
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The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
William of Auxerre
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Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
John Ruskin
