#virtue

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#confounded #contrary #delightful #evil #good

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#begs #common #consider #ever #first

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#did #ever #first #hardly #light

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ↗

— Confucius

#left #neighbors #practices #stand #virtue

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#nothing #our #times #unattractive #virtue

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#incident #natural #our #pitiful #sex

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. ↗

— Anatole France

#gives #good #life #owe #pity

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#interest #long #long run #private #public

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race