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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability. – Paul. F. Meekin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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 that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. – Ayn Rand	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself. – Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae"	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. – Confucius, The Confucian Analects	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. – Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Sir Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. – Dinesh D’Souza	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. – Buddha	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. – Cato the Elder	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. – Samuel Butler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense. – John Adams, (Diary, 1786)	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. – Alex Comfort	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Virtue is its own punishment. – Aneurin Bevan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The love of money is the root of all virtue. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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