#virtues

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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

— Confucius

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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

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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ↗

— Rebecca West

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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Aristotle

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