#virtue

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive. ↗

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. ↗

— Juvenal

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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue ↗

— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#knowledge-of-the-self #knowledge-wisdom #lessons-in-life #lessons-learned #life