Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
VirtueGreaterSeductionDemandMost
No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or elsewhere.
Tobias Lutke
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos
ExperienceWomanVirtueMoreAlways
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos
CommitmentBlindIntellectualVirtue
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott
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In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Fatema Mernissi
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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci
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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.
Edmund Husserl
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Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.
Jane Goodall
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac
SoulNothingVirtueMorePoliteness
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel
LibertyVirtueViceSomeExtent
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Henry Fielding
TodayTomorrowVirtueViceMay
I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.
Andrew Scott
WorkPeopleMeFreeKindVirtue
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
Gilbert Parker
DoingCreditYouWantVirtue
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
John Ortberg
LifeHumilityVirtueLeadServant
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
SelfishRewardWillVirtueNever
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
Ephraim Mirvis
GoodWorldFreeSpeechVirtueRight
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
JusticeMistakeThinkVirtueHuman
It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
David Farr
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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
John Robert Seeley
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya
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