#virtue

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ↗

— William Burroughs

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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #group #individual #members #mix

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. ↗

— Paul Getty

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#because #between #brain #brains #certainly

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

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Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#exaggerated #fault #individual #racial #self-importance