#virtue

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man. ↗

— Deanna Raybourn

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ↗

— Aristotle

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. ↗

— Aristotle

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ↗

— Aristotle

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. ↗

— Aristotle

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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