Quotes 61 till 80 of 369.
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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Esteem to virtue is like a cherishing air to plants and flowers, which maketh them blow and prosper.
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p -
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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For in the fatness of these pursy times I virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
Variae, Bk. 2, no. 40; p. 38.
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