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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
- Algernon Sidney
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
- Casey Stengel
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One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
- Neville Marriner
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
- Thomas Hobbes
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
- B. Carroll Reece
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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
- Klaus Kinski
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Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.
- Anthony Carmona
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
- Ethel Waters
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Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
- Krista Tippett
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Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the virtues of the young vanguard as the initial spark and bring into full play the mounting vigour of the millions of young people.
- Kim Jong-un
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
- Sargent Shriver
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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
- George Farquhar
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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.
- Vitruvius
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The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.
- Lawrence Osborne
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For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
- Allison Pearson
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In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.
- Fernando Haddad
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It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
- James Wolcott
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No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
- Giraldus Cambrensis
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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
- Giraldus Cambrensis
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
- Frank Miller
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
- Paul Di Filippo
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To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
- Michael Sandel
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
- Nagarjuna
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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
- Jean Genet
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Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.
- Merle Dandridge
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The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
- Stephen Moore
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
- Aleister Crowley
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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
- John Jewel
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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
- Giuseppe Mazzini
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If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.
- Max Heindel
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The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
- William Godwin
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
- William Gilmore Simms
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
- Alan King
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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
- William A. Dembski
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
- Joseph Hall
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Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
- John Keegan
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I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.
- Stephen Moyer
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Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.
- Jakob Bohme
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I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
- David Mallet
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
- Samuel Johnson
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
- Francis Bacon
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The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
- Maya Angelou
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
- George Bernard Shaw
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Bertrand Russell
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- Aristotle
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- Aristotle
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
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Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
- Martin Yan
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
- Larry Wall
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
- Francis John McConnell
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Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
- Hrithik Roshan
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
- Sidney Lanier
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
- William Shenstone
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
- Malcolm Gladwell
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If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
- Walter Bagehot
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Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
- Saint Basil
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
- Thomas Moore
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
- Nikola Tesla
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
- Alfred Marshall
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
- Abigail Adams
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
- Annie Besant
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In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
- James E. Faust
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
- Nancy Gibbs
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
- Sydney Smith
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
- Sydney Smith
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
- Moliere
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
- Don Marquis
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
- Juvenal
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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
- Akhenaton
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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
- Satchel Paige
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
- St. Jerome
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
- Sam Levenson
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- Rene Descartes
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
- Plutarch
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
- E. O. Wilson
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
- Charles Dickens
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
- Aldous Huxley
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?
- Jordan Peterson
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
- John Locke
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