Cardinal Virtues Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound…
— Charles Dickens
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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has…
— Plato
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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…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding…
— Alan Greenspan
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Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a…
— Laozi
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
— Thomas Hobbes
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order,…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
— John Burns
Who Wrote These Cardinal Virtues Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 14 Cardinal Virtues Quotes as follows: