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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage
First
Virtue
Fatigue
Soldier
Only
Endurance
Second
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire
Before
Virtue
Slight
Tyrants
Destroying
Some
Shade
Laws
Support
Always
Them
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato
Enough
Virtue
Earth
Give
Exchange
Gold
Which
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius
Education
Man
Natural
Virtue
Ability
More
Without
Glory
Than
Often
Natural Ability
Raised
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
War
Confidence
Justice
Peace
Mind
Disposition
State
Virtue
Benevolence
Absence
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
Justice
Liberty
Defense
Virtue
Extremism
Pursuit
Moderation
Vice
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu
You
Virtue
Understand
Realize
Defect
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love
Virtue
Unlovable
Which
To Love
Means
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
Nature
Ignorance
Constitution
Confusion
Honor
Virtue
Circulation
Distress
Arise
Confederation
America
Want
Much
Downright
Credit
Defects
Coin
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu
Truth
Expediency
Lost
Beginning
Virtue
Benevolence
Shadow
Mere
Conduct
Expedience
Disorder
Appears
Right
Right Conduct
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
Saint Ignatius
Work
You
Soul
Peace
Grace
Try
Wish
Whatever
Enjoy
Virtue
Our
Our Lord
Able
Only
Higher
Greater
Ready
Always
Lord
Times
Than
Quiet
May
Different
Places
Your
Certainly
Different Places
Peace And Quiet
Different Times
Keep
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
Politics
Me
You
Justice
Liberty
Defense
Virtue
Extremism
Would
Pursuit
Remind
Also
Moderation
Vice
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes
Music
Practice
Others
Virtue
Neglect
Harp
Pleasing
Those
Insensible
Like
Always
Sound
Itself
Mouths
Which
While
Who
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm
Hate
Envy
Feeling
Virtue
Guise
Out
Destructive
Moral
Indignation
Contains
Perhaps
Permits
Which
Much
Acted
Phenomenon
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Robert Fulghum
Inspirational
Music
Nature
Heart
Mind
Dance
Believe
Pulse
Virtue
Beat
Blood
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Virtue
Temper
Principle
Always
Moderation
Vice
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
Happiness
Happy
Virtue
Pleasure
Neither
Simply
Nor
Growing
Growth
Thing
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius
Alone
Will
Virtue
Neighbors
He
Practices
Left
Stand
Who
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
Goodness
Virtue
Fearful
Never
Bold
A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Soul
Reflection
Mirror
Healthy
Community
Living
Virtue
Finds
Only
Social
Social Life
Whole
Each
Found
Each One
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
Age
Energy
Consider
Virtue
Simply
Most
Loss
After
Persons
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn
Wise
Marriage
Money
Wife
Mind
Beauty
Before
Virtue
Thou
Self
Friend
Person
Prefer
Then
Body
Companion
Second
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Henry Van Dyke
Happiness
Service
Good
World
Welfare
Sail
Increase
Aim
Virtue
Strive
Possible
Some
Something
Haven
Shall
Surely
Doing
Which
Mankind
Us
Really
Choice
Desire
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.
Jakob Bohme
Love
God
Love Is
Sense
Virtue
Virtues
Higher
Highest
Principle
Greater
Greatest
God Love
Than
Whence
Being
While
Forth
Certain
Flow
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Faith
Man
Sense
Live
Virtue
Destroy
Force
Himself
Does
Whereby
Which
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
Ambition
Tools
Virtue
Fit
Begets
Germ
Dependence
Prepares
Designs
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