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Virtue Quotes

By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major significance, have been deposited at the Ben-Zvi Institute. In contrast to the Aleppo Codex, most of these documents were donated willingly, in the confidence that the institute would protect and preserve them.

Confidence Virtue President Protect

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Mind Virtue Human Human Mind Could

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

Think Artist Back Kind Way Virtue

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

Good Practice You Moral Virtue

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Virtue Vice Annoying Pleasant Prefer

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Virtue Without Fortune Cannot Either

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy Virtue Pay Homage Only

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature Habit Mind Virtue Reason

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Virtue Modesty Guard Only Ornament

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Patience Grace Virtue

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Man Virtue Must Cannot He Seduced

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

God Virtue Same Always Without Only

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

Dayananda Saraswati

Practice Civilization Virtue Welfare

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Silence Fools Virtue

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Virtue Wheat Does Purify Affliction

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Name Virtue Real Self-Interest Vices

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Medical Parents People Way Virtue

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

Adlai Stevenson I

Lady Accuracy Newspaper Virtue Print

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Virtue Up Dealing Justly

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Future Men Past Energy Virtue Left

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Socialism Capitalism Blessings Virtue

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Me Saying Virtue Hard Honorable

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Philip Massinger

Patience Find Virtue Here Harbor

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Samuel Alexander

Thought Differences Important Virtue

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