Virtue Quotes
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
Ajahn Chah
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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
Brennan Manning
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
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Reward is its own virtue.
Carolyn Wells
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I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.
Catherine Brady
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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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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
Witold Gombrowicz
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
Moliere
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
William Gifford
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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 Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
Michael Ignatieff
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
Seneca the Younger
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
William Shakespeare
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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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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
Seneca the Younger
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When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
Chico Xavier
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
Seneca the Younger
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Thomas Carlyle
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudius Claudianus
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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
John Ruskin
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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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The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.
Russell M. Nelson
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
Helen Keller
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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