#virtue

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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