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Virtue  Quotes
Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice.

—Anwesha Roychowdhury

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Never sacrifice what’s right for what’s convenient.

—Matshona Dhliwayo

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If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late.

—Lik Hock

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A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

—Stefan Molyneux

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That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like...

—Alastair Reynolds

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Well, Mr Markham, you that maintain that a boy should not be shielded from evil, but sent out to battle against it, alone and unassisted – not taught to avoid the snares of life, but...

—Anne Brontë

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The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim’s ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men;...

—Angela Carter

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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are...

—Charles Robert Maturin

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Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something.”The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement....

—Iain Pears

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I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.

—Jarod Kintz

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Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

—Elif Shafak

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Too much virtue can be criminal.

—Jean Racine

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I’d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

—Joss Whedon

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Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn’t come naturally. And then, on the thousand and...

—N.T. Wright

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It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better...

—Karen Swallow

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I can’t count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

—Patrick Rothfuss

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They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the...

—Thornton Wilder

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Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

—Thiruvalluvar

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The beauty and music…It is a call…And some are not strong.

—Richard Llewellyn

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Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.

—William Shakespeare

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Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference...

—Ann Radcliffe

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Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from...

—Baldassare Castiglione

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A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

—Agu Jaachynma

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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

—Edsger W.

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What we’re fighting against isn’t an out-and-out vice. It’s an overgrown, perverted virtue.

—Jared Taylor

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What does Yagwavalkya say?’It is not our hermitage,’ he says—our religion ,we might say—’still less the colour of our skin, that produces virtue ; virtue must be practised. Therefore let no one do to others...

—Friedrich Max

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Since childhood at my mother’s knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

—Harry S. Truman

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Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the...

—John Henry Jowett

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There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal...

—John Dickson

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Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other misfortunes. His character was an admirable combination of dignity and charm, and all the duties of his station were performed...

—Marcus Aurelius

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[On the virtuous man] “He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

—Plato

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Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken… So be your self! Speak your truth – if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that...

—Stefan Molyneux

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By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that...

—Wuhayb ibn

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If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God’s sake? But God has so ordained, that we may learn to bear with one another’s burdens, for there is no man...

—Thomas à

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We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can’t entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

—Phillip Cary

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Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

—Thomas Merton

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Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

—Ayn Rand

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One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are...

—Andy Rooney

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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.

—Aristotle

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And it is you, spirit–with will and energy, and virtue and purity–that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

—Charlotte Brontë

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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

—Francis Atterbury

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When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (…)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: “Fair sweet friend, have you not...

—Christine de

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A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

—Justin K.

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To be moral, an act must be free.

—Murray N.

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You can seek out good fortune, authority (power), and even a righteous life-partner…and find them all. But when all of this is gone…which it will be eventually, I wish you Peace, which is only found...

—Joe Campos

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Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our...

—Robert Louis

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That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some...

—Victor Hugo

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Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue.

—Thiruman Archunan

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