#virtue

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ↗

— John Herschel

#self-respect #virtue

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beneficial #consequences #evil #extremes #forget

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ↗

— Emil Ludwig

#always #another #attracted #because #close

If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#vice #virtue #freedom

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #sin #virtue #love

That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't deserve, precisely because he didn't deserve it--that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what's love for? If a man deserves a job, there's no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophical #virtue #love

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction. ↗

— Alyssa Kress

#quality #virtue #marriage

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #inspirational #love #motivational #talent

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#forgiveness #ice #sin #virtue #forgiveness

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#faculty #i #instrument #myself #possess