Quotes 41 till 60 of 369.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65 -
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
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By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
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Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
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