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Virtue Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they…
- That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he…
- There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is…
- It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
- From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and…
- If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
- No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine