#virtue

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Tenderness is a virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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

— Horace Walpole

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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. ↗

— Izaak Walton

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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ↗

— George Washington

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. ↗

— John Webster

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

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