#virtues

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ↗

— Thomas Day

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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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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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. ↗

— Buddha

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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. ↗

— Juvenal

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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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