#virtue

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. ↗

— Jessica Lange

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Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that. ↗

— Marc Webb

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I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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