"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

Virtue, Happiness, Function, Ethics

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"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Virtue,

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Virtue, Happiness, Life, Progress

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Faith, Wisdom, Love, Boldness

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Evil, Wisdom, Love, God

"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Virtue, Goodness, Action, Character

"Live simply, share your wealth with others."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Simple, Sharing, Wealth, Generosity

"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."

Robert Vaughn, American Actor

Virtue, Being

"Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Virtue, Humility, Grace, Faith, Character

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

Marquis De Vauvenargues, French Philosopher

Virtue,

"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

Anatole France, French Novelist

Virtue, Fortune, Innocence

Explore more quotes by William S. Burroughs

"The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets."

Science

"What's with the serum?"I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..."Or a joke."Precisely. Arty type...No principles..."

Absurdity

"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine."

Control

"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."

Identity

"You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere."

Wellness

"Two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws."

Surrealism

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

Change

"But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude."

Art

"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."

Change

"There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some large goldfish I bought in a bait store. The cats are always trying to catch the fish, with no success. One time the white cat leapt for a frog across the pool. The frog dove in and the cat fell in. He is trouble-prone."

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