#virtue

Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue. ↗

— Jack B Nicholson

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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. ↗

— Judith Martin

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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. ↗

— Francis John McConnell

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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. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. ↗

— Charles II

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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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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. ↗

— Moliere

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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Nagarjuna

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