#virtue

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#intimate #matters #must #own #privacy

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#virtue #beauty

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive. ↗

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#selfishness #sin #theosophy #virtue #life

Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#excellence #humanity #knowledge #life #virtue

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? ↗

— Milton Friedman

#appointed #basis #choose #clout #communist

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#claims #echoes #fault #greatest #horror

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

#clearness #detracts #language #much #nothing

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list. ↗

— Brit Hume

#been #course #done #excellent #geraldo

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#character #christ #code #human #human life

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#many #others #people #severity #think