Virtue Quotes
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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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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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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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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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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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The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
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The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.
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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
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Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.
