#virtue

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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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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