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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature, he said, irritated at my failure to respond. Nature's virtue is intact, I reassured him. I just know some different laws.
Orson Scott Card
An appreciation for irony.
Christopher Hitchens
We do not sustain ourselves in virtue by our own strength, but by the balancing of two opposed vices, just as we remain upright amidst two contrary gales. Remove one of the vices, and we fall into the other.
Blaise Pascal
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Benjamin Franklin
The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
Ugly and deformed people have great need of unusual virtues, because they are likely to be extremely uncomfortable without them. (Book V.).
George Eliot
I am the tool with which God works. My virtue is to participate in this work, and I can do so if I keep the instrument which is given to me, namely my soul, in immaculate condition.
Leo Tolstoy
Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
Ambrose Bierce
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Aristotle
It is not a virtue, but a kind of deceitful similitude, to fulfill our duty for the purpose of its reward.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist?...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
Thomas Jefferson
