#virtue

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ↗

— William Penn

#before #body #companion #friend #hast

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ↗

— Petrarch

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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

#cause #itself #often #though #times

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. ↗

— Jean Racine

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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#first #know #must #order #ourselves

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#good #imposing #looks #only #suits

There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her. ↗

— John Dickson

#bad-boys #beauty #virtue #beauty

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Amanda Quick

#beauty

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#goals #virtue #death

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. "The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action." Olivier frowned. "So?" "Dear boy, I must tell you a secret." "What?" "I do believe it is wrong. ↗

— Iain Pears

#comprehension #philosophy #right #understanding #virtue