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- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
- To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.
- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
- What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
- Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold…
- You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to…
- Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward…
- Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
- Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal,…
- You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last…
- [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole…
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person,…
- Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
- A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
- Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
- Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
- There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from…
- Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines…
- I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
- There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
- It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake…
- This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world…
- Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency…
- When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine