I hadn't gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
To use Virtue is perfect blessedness.
Virtue lies in the middle ground.
There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when it becomes excessively bald, wrenched.
All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of virtue is that straightness of back.
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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Modesty is oftner mistaken than any other Virtue.
Virtue is no empty echo.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Virtue runs no risk of becoming contemptible by being exposed to view, and it is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.
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So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
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It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
A pleasant virtue, extreme penance to an extreme course; Also pleasant, when God is delivering me. Pleasant, the carousal that hinders not mental exertion; Also pleasant, to drink together about horns.
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For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
And this God, the living God, your God, our God, is in me, is in you, lives in us, and we live and move and have our being in Him. And he is in us by virtue of the hunger, the longing, which we have for Him, He is Himself creating the longing for Himself.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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