#virtue

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

— Philip Massinger

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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. ↗

— David Hare

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

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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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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. ↗

— Plato

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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ↗

— Buddha

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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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