#virtue

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do. ↗

— Karl Barth

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex. ↗

— Robert Benton

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What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all? ↗

— Joshua Emmet

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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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