#virtue

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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.


Jessica Lange


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Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.


Marc Webb


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I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.


Hugh Laurie


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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.


William Law


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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.


C. S. Lewis


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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.


Walter Lippmann


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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.


Walter Lippmann


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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.


John Locke


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