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Virtue Quotes
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
37
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
37
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
36
"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
36
"I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue."
36
"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you."
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"Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors."
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"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
35
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
35
"To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject."
35
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
34
"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
34
"In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
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"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
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"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."
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"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."
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"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."
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"Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent."
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"To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction."
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