#virtue

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ↗

— Diogenes

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