#virtue

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ↗

— Don Marquis

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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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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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. ↗

— Moliere

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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. ↗

— William Penn

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The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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