#virtue

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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. ↗

— 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. ↗

— David Hume

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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. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

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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. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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