Virtue Quotes
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
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Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence, then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
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In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
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Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
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Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
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Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
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Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
