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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. Paul Gauguin

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Frances Wright

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai Stevenson I

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Miguel de Cervantes

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Anatole France

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Joseph Stiglitz

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

James Bovard

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

Jonathan Miller

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Thomas Goodwin

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Margaret Deland

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

Emily Mortimer

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Francois Fenelon

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Robert Cecil

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Quentin Crisp

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

Alex Tabarrok

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

Edmund Husserl

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Imre Lakatos

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

George Savile

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Robert E. Howard

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Caleb Cushing

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Wilkie Collins

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Robert Benton

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.

Paul Kalanithi

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Francis Bacon

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Max Heindel

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Anatole France

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Thomas Aquinas

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Lyman Abbott

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

Brit Hume