quotes by topic Virtue

" Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. "
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Aristotle
Right , Men , Virtue
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" Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. "
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Baltasar Gracian
Virtue , Authenticity , Inspiration
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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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C. S. Lewis
Courage , Virtue , Testing
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" Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. "
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Caleb Cushing
People , Virtue , Government , Intelligence , Gentlemen , Republican , Forget
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" Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. "
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Felix Adler
Virtue , Public
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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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Edmund Burke
Virtue , Government , Compromise , Enjoyment
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" Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. "
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Edgar Watson Howe
Men , Virtue
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" The love of economy is the root of all virtue. "
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George Bernard Shaw
Love , Virtue , Economy
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" What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? "
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George Bernard Shaw
Virtue , Trade
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" Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. "
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George Bernard Shaw
Love , Truth , Knowledge , Glory , Virtue , Humanity
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