#virtue

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. ↗

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin. ↗

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. ↗

— Andre Breton

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that. ↗

— John Lee Hancock

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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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