Quotes 7821 till 7840 of 9541.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
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Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
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Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.
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Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
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Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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