#virtue

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. ↗

— James H. Douglas

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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. ↗

— William Slim

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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. ↗

— David Hare

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

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