#virtue

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. ↗

— Aristotle

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ↗

— Aristotle

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. ↗

— Aristotle

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ↗

— Thomas Day

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Silence is the virtue of fools. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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