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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "All virtue is summed up in dealing justly." | |
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Aristotle
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| "All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self
determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even
toward the best objective." | |
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William Ellery Channing
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| "And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Be not simply good; be good for something." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed, for prosperity doth best discover vice, But
adversity doth best discover virtue." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as
brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge." | |
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Dante Alighieri
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| "Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England"s Council, and
her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them
both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have
known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks
I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all
both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured
Margaret." | |
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John Milton
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| "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues,
and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever
known." | |
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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| "Happy man, happy dole." | |
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John Heywood
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| "He who sows virtue reaps fame." | |
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Proverb
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| "I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and
infrequent, were exhaled." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a
year." | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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| "It takes a wise man to discover a wise man." | |
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Diogenes the Cynic
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| "It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man." | |
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Xenophanes
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| "No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic." | |
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Sir John Robert Seeley
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| "One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being
influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that
in that does happiness consist." | |
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Diogenes Laertius
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| "One should seek virtue for its own sake and not from hope or fear,
or any external motive. It is in virtue that happiness consists, for
virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life
harmonious." | |
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Zeno
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| "Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when
we are challenged to be what we can be." | |
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Morris Alder
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| "Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for
them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains
a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are
often better." | |
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George Eliot
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| "Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, not
gold." | |
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Beethoven
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| "Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy,
not gold." | |
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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| "Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time:" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not
your god." | |
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Scott Alexander
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| "The only reward of virtue is virtue." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The power of man"s virtue should not be measured by his special
efforts, but by his ordinary doings." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can
be pretty sure they"re going to have some pretty annoying virtues." | |
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(1932? ) Elizabeth Taylor
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| "There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice." | |
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Joseph Joubert
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| "Virtue can have naught to do with ease.... It craves a steep and
thorny path." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "Virtue does not come from wealth, but ... wealth, and every other
good thing which men have ... comes from virtue." | |
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Socrates
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| "Virtue has need of limits." | |
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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| "Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat
with ourselves." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Virtue is its own punishment." | |
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Unknown
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| "Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is
innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned
arrows were." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice
to God of the devil?s leavings." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue
is not hereditary." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "Women"s virtue is man"s greatest invention." | |
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
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