virtue Quotes

“They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“Hence it is evident that the good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.”

― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

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“Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

topic:virtue independence value

“All her virtue returned, because her love was waning.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

topic:love virtue

“If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

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“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:marriage virtue

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