#virtue

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. ↗

— Andre Breton

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that. ↗

— John Lee Hancock

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Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste à croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice. Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6 ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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