Quotes 161 till 180 of 369.
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Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
Is virtue, and not fate:
Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
And her black spite expel.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4. -
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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