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#virtue

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If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love- You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.


C.S. Lewis


#unselfishness #virtue #weight-of-glory #love

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.


Dante Alighieri


#consider #follow #knowledge #live #made

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.


Lao Tzu


#beginning #benevolence #conduct #disorder #expedience

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.


Thomas Carlyle


#element #even #goodness #mysterious #secrecy

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.


William Ellery Channing


#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.


Peter Ustinov


#her #much #said #she #thought

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.


Quentin Crisp


#carry #consumer #green #marketed #must

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.


Robert Vaughn


#believing #certain #embraces #mysteries #supreme

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.


Kirk Douglas


#everybody #fat #guy #nice #nice guy






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