#virtues

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ↗

— Jean Paul

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

— Quintilian

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. ↗

— Sallust

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ↗

— Bahá'u'lláh

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