#virtue

I'm really tired of virtue. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#really #tired #virtue

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. ↗

— Jane Porter

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. ↗

— Matthew Prior

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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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Virtue is harmony. ↗

— Pythagoras

#virtue

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. ↗

— Martin Yan

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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers. ↗

— Tina Fey

#politics #professionalism #prostitution #virtues #dreams

Virtue can only flourish among equals. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#honor #virtue #wicked #dreams

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty #courage #honor #ignorance #money