virtue Quotes

“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbors.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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“To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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“Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them; for the temperate man desires as he ought to desire, and what he ought to desire, as stated in Ethic.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Men's evil manners live in brass: their virtues we write in water.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

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