Virtue Quotes

• "The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy."
  By: George Eliot
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• "From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone."
  By: Barbara Ehrenreich
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• "Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
  By: Margaret Deland
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• "Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
  By: Alighieri Dante
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• "Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
  By: Dante Italian philosopher and poet (1265-1321)
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• "Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
  By: Quentin Crisp
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• "To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."
  By: Confucius Chinese philosopher (551 BC - 479 BC)
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• "I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."
  By: Confucius Chinese philosopher (551 BC - 479 BC)
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• "All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
  By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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• "Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "Virtue is its own reward."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "Honor is the reward of virtue."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."
  By: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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