Quotes 341 till 360 of 369.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
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You talk no more of that gay nation now,
Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1. -
Young men have more virtue than old men, they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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