#virtue

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, ↗

— William Shakespeare

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That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. ↗

— Francis Arinze

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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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