#virtues

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. ↗

— Aristotle

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. ↗

— Anatole France

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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