#virtues

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. ↗

— John Locke

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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