Quotes 281 till 300 of 369.
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
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Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbor give
To more virtue than doth live.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6. -
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
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Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
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Virtue gives herself light through darkness for to wade.
The Faerie Queene (1590) 1, 12 -
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
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