#virtue

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices. ↗

— Danny Sugerman

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#nature #plastic #purity #subjection #truth

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#good #happiness #man #own #secured

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethics #even #expansive #intoxication #new

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#greater #most #seduction #virtue

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#children #gold #happy #make #recommend

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#virtue #age

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doth #goad #loving #most #sin