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Virtue Quotes
"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, becausehappiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should directthem towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its preycan be happy too, but only human beings can feel affectionfor each other, and this is the highest achievement they canaspire to."
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"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."
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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"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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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
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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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"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."
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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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"I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue."
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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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"Women work a good many miracles and I have a persuasion that they may preform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys the longer the better and let the young men sew their wild oats if they must, but mothers, sisters and friends may help to make the crop a small one and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest by believing and showing that they believe in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes."
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"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."
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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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