#virtue

True virtue is life under the direction of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

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By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. ↗

— Ron Suskind

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General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. ↗

— William Slim

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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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