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Virtue Quotes
Quotes on honor, charity, and everyday character.
Several quotes here separate being honorable from being flawless, suggesting virtue is closer to a daily practice than a finished state. That grounded view of Integrity shapes much of the collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Oppression
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All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
- Loyal
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Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
- Death
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
- Government
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- Ideal
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
- Color
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
- Modesty
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
- Justice
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
- Greatest
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I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
- General Welfare
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