#virtues

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ↗

— Joseph Hall

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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#generally #going #people #pretty #problem

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#easily #governed #more #than #their

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

— Bertolt Brecht

#great virtues #sign #something #sure #sure sign

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

#gives #good #life #owe #pity

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#display #fellow #fellow creatures #like #love

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#force #inseparable #like #man #matter

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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