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• Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Virtue, Ignorance, Philosophy

• Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtue

• On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Virtue, Humour, Philosophy

• True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

  David Mallet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Virtue

• Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

  David Mallet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Virtue

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  Buckminster Fuller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtue

• Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

  Bob Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perseverance, Virtue

• Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

  Benjamin Rush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Virtue

• Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

  Baruch Spinoza

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  Tags in Virtue, Reward

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Virtue

• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Virtue

• When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

  Barbara Amiel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Virtue

• The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

  Sophocles

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  Tags in Virtue

• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Virtue

• In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

  Samuel Butler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtue, Vice

• It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  Samuel Butler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtue, Vice

• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  Samuel Butler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtue, Gold

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  Samuel Butler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtue
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  To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Through, Virtue

• The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person’s name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Virtue