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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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The rare grace of honest listening transforms conversations into glimpses of strangers' souls.
Author:
Alessia Winters
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True abundance comes not from the span of our blinkered gains, but wild with the hunger to truly feel every Blush of sunrise in community.
Author:
Elanora Weiss
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Living a good life is a brilliant composition of moments we intentionally pickle, each layer unfolding as vividly marinated cicadas welcome twilight.
Author:
Luna Morgan
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When in doubt, choose kindness over anger
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Wisdom is knowing what path to take, integrity is taking it, and virtue is staying on it.
Author:
Pierce Brooks
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Fear is a static position that signals Virtue and Learning have ceased.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.
Author:
David Starr
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The strongest wings are those lifted by virtue.
Author:
Sophia Miller
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Author:
David Reed
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it with love.
Author:
Charles Buck
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is actually doing it.
Author:
David Jordan
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In the search for success, always remember that virtue will outlast material wealth.
Author:
Sophia Hamilton
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Let your actions speak louder than your words, for in the most profound silence, the greatest virtues are revealed.
Author:
Sofia Johnson
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Success is not defined by applause, but by the impact you leave on hearts and minds.
Author:
Sophia Johnson
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The smallest act of kindness can outshine the grandest gesture of selfishness.
Author:
Emily Davis
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Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it.
Author:
David Jordan
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I believe that kindness is the most underrated of all virtues.
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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True strength is not displayed in the loudest voices or the biggest actions, but in the quiet determination to do what is right, even when no one is watching.
Author:
Amelia Earhart
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Author:
Edward Young
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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Author:
Frances Wright
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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
Author:
James Wilson
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Author:
William Whitehead
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Author:
Mae West
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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
Author:
Frank Wedekind
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
Author:
John Webster
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Author:
George Washington
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Author:
George Washington
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Author:
Voltaire
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Author:
Voltaire
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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Author:
Virgil
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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
Author:
James Thurber
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Author:
Tacitus
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
Author:
Algernon Swinburne
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My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Author:
Robert Surtees
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There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.
Author:
Danny Sugerman
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Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.
Author:
Eugene Sue
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Author:
Leo Strauss
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Author:
Joseph Story
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In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Author:
Joseph Stiglitz
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Author:
Laurence Stern
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Author:
Sophocles
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It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
Author:
George Smith
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Author:
Adam Smith
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Author:
Adam Smith
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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
Author:
William Slim
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Author:
Cornelia Skinner
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
Author:
Diogenes Sinope
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Author:
Algernon Sidney
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Author:
George Shaw
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Author:
George Shaw
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Author:
George Shaw
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
Author:
George Shaw
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Author:
George Shaw
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We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
Author:
Moshe Sharett
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Author:
John Seeley
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Author:
Walter Scott
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Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Author:
Joseph Schumpeter
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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Author:
Erwin Schrodinger
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Author:
George Savile
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Author:
Herbert Samuel
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Author:
Sallust
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Author:
Saint Sales
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Author:
Mark Rutherford
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Author:
Benjamin Rush
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Author:
Maximilien Robespierre
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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Author:
Maximilien Robespierre
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Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
Author:
Bob Riley
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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Author:
Charles Revson
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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Author:
Jean Racine
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Too much virtue can be criminal.
Author:
Jean Racine
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Author:
Quintilian
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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Virtue is harmony.
Author:
Pythagoras
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Author:
Joseph Pulitzer
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
Author:
Matthew Prior
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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Author:
Matthew Prior
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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Author:
Jane Porter
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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Author:
Jane Porter
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Author:
Plutarch
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Author:
Plato
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Author:
Plato
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Author:
Plato
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Author:
Plato
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Author:
Max Planck
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Author:
Petrarch
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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.
Author:
William Penn
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Author:
William Penn
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Author:
Paracelsus
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Author:
Major Owens
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The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
Author:
Major Owens
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Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.
Author:
Robert Owen
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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
Author:
Robert Owen
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Author:
Ovid
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Author:
George Orwell
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Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Author:
Chester Nimitz
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Author:
Adela Nicolson
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Author:
John Newman
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
Author:
Ajay Naidu
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
Author:
Lionel Murphy
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So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
Author:
Emily Mortimer
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They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
Author:
John Morley
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Author:
Moliere
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Author:
Moliere
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
Author:
John Milton
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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Author:
Jonathan Miller
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Author:
Frank Miller
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Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
Author:
Kelly Millar
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Author:
Herman Melville
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I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Author:
Philip Massinger
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Author:
Philip Massinger
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Author:
Judith Martin
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Author:
Don Marquis
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Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Author:
Bernard Mandeville
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
Author:
David Mallet
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True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
Author:
David Mallet
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Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Author:
David Mallet
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Author:
Emil Ludwig
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Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Author:
Lawrence Lovasik
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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Author:
Belva Lockwood
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The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
Author:
El Lissitzky
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Author:
C. Lewis
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Author:
Ninon Lenclos
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
Author:
William Law
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Author:
Alphonse Karr
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Author:
David Jordan
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Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Author:
Richard Johnson
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Author:
Phillip Johnson
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Author:
Silius Italicus
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
Author:
Edmund Husserl
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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.
Author:
Edmund Husserl
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
Author:
David Hume
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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
Author:
David Hume
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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
Author:
Brit Hume
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Author:
Wilhelm Humboldt
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The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman.
Author:
Caroline Huling
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Author:
Edgar Howe
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
Author:
Robert Howard
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Author:
Hippocrates
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Author:
Gordon Hinckley
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Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
Author:
Rudolf Hiferding
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All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
Author:
Theodore Hesburgh
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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
Author:
John Herschel
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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
Author:
Claud-Adrian Helvetius
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
Author:
David Hare
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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Author:
Robert Hall
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
Author:
George Grosz
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Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Author:
Barry Goldwater
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Author:
Barry Goldwater
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Tenderness is a virtue.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Author:
James Goldsmith
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In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Author:
Thomas Gold
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Author:
Walter Gilbert
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
Author:
Paul Getty
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Author:
Ira Gershwin
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Author:
Indira Gandhi
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Author:
John Galbraith
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Author:
R. Fuller
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
Author:
R. Fuller
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Author:
Christopher Fry
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
Author:
James Froude
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Author:
Milton Friedman
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Author:
Anatole France
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Author:
Anatole France
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Author:
Anatole France
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I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.
Author:
Jonathan Frakes
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Author:
E. Forster
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
Author:
Randy Forbes
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.
Author:
Mark Foley
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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
Author:
Colin Firth
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Author:
Francois Fenelon
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
Author:
Edward Everett
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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Author:
Euripides
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Author:
Will Durant
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Author:
John Dryden
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
Author:
Diogenes
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Author:
Diogenes
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Author:
Margaret Deland
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Author:
Edward Dahlberg
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Author:
Edward Dahlberg
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
