#virtue

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. ↗

— Plutarch

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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. ↗

— Ovid

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