#virtue

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#habit #mind #moderation #nature #reason

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#great virtues #sign #something #sure #sure sign

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

#beauty #harmony #style #ugly #vice

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

#any #confirms #day #every #every day

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. ↗

— Lord Byron

#homage #hypocrisy #only #pay #virtue

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#confounded #contrary #delightful #evil #good

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#begs #common #consider #ever #first

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cannot #man #may #reasonably #truth

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? ↗

— Chanakya

#fame #good #man #needed #ornamentation