#virtue

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#good government #government #outcome #private #virtue

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#moderation #pearl #running #silken #string

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#australia #cannot #development #government #nations

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#excel #first #life #lives #man

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#cultivating #men #men and women #respect #self

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ↗