May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!
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The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.
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As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults, and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
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I believe Beauty is the condition of the perfect life, just as important as Virtue and Truth.
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Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
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The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
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Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.
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An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
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A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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.. Money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue.
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Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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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?
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
Two world wars have destroyed in a few years the material and spiritual capital accumulated by centuries of work. The nineteenth century had hoped to turn man, by virtue of education, into a reasoning being: a half-century of ferocity has proved that a cruel, primitive beast still resides in him.
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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