#virtue

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. ↗

— William Slim

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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. ↗

— Plato

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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ↗

— Buddha

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Virtue alone has majesty in death. ↗

— Edward Young

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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

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Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. ↗

— Doreen Valiente

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