#virtue

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#virtue #faith

You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#virtues #life

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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The immoral can no more earn respect Than the envious be rich. ↗

— Thiruvalluvar

#right-conduct #virtue #respect

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ↗

— Mae West

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