#virtue

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ↗

— Larry Wall

#hubris #impatience #laziness #programmer #three

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. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#activity #due #injustice #itself #justice

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. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#already #believe #bring #consciousness #experiences

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. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure. ↗

— Sophocles

#alone #rewards #secure #virtue

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#divorce #itself #new #new york #virtue

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#forgiveness #men #virtue #women #forgiveness

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. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #despise #enjoy #freedom #last

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#growth #happiness #happy #neither #nor

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concubine #devotion #dignity #freedom #honor