#virtue

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive. ↗

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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... loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. ↗

— Francis John McConnell

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I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. ↗

— Charles II

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