#virtue

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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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— James Buchan

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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ↗

— Buddha

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. ↗

— Plato

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗

— Voltaire

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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