#virtues

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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

— Quintilian

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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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

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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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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ↗

— Confucius

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