#virtue

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ↗

— Alex Comfort

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. ↗

— Margaret Deland

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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

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