virtue Quotes

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

― Nikola Tesla, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

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“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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“The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“The effort for self-preservation is the first and only foundation of virtue.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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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.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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“Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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