#virtue

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. ↗

— William J Federer

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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. ↗

— Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA

#elegance #simple #simplicity #virtue #education

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. ↗

— John Henry Jowett

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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ↗

— Confucius

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True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#virtue #faith

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well ↗

— Charles Colson

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Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#patience #virtue #inspirational

the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#virtues #life

Inasmuch as often in this life greater rewards are offered for vice than for virtue, few people would prefer the right to the useful, were they restreined neither by the fear of God nor the expectation of another life ... ↗

— René Descartes

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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. ↗

— Aristotle

#habit #virtue #life