#virtues

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. ↗

— William J Federer

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You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. ↗

— Graham Greene

#faith

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#virtues #life

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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