Virtue Quotes

• "Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?"
  By: Seneca Roman writer (55 BC - 39 AD)
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• "Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."
  By: Seneca Roman writer (55 BC - 39 AD)
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• "Virtue is reason which has become energy."
  By: Friedrich Schlegel
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• "Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy."
  By: Marquis de Sade
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• "A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."
  By: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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• "Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out."
  By: Harold Rosenberg
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• "We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
  By: Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."
  By: Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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• "It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean."
  By: Sir Walter Raleigh
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• "Virtue is harmony."
  By: Pythagoras Greek philosopher (580 BC - 504 BC)
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• "Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
  By: Ezra Pound
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• "We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
  By: Plato Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
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• "Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
  By: Petrarch
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• "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
  By: Thomas Paine
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• "A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
  By: George Orwell
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