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Virtue Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
- Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over…
- Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
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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