Top 25 Virtue Quotes of 1365 - Page 10

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Diogenes

Poverty, Virtue, Teach

"Anthology (Book 4)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

C. A. Bartol

Virtue, Temperance

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

Billy Bragg

Virtue, Tested

Song: Must I Paint You a Picture?

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

Andre Bazin

Becoming, Virtue, Photograph

André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Alphonse de Lamartine

Freedom, Void, Virtue

Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.111

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

Ajahn Chah

Virtue, Protect

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

Zhuangzi

Wise, Wisdom, Virtue

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

William Shakespeare

Virtue, You Like It, Negotiation

'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Virtue

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Thomas Chalmers

Character, Virtue, Habit

Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man”, p.148

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Sallust

Kings, Virtue, Mistrust

Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

Saint John Chrysostom

Queens, Endurance, Virtue

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

Nicolas Winding Refn

Ideas, Narcissism, Virtue

Source: www.avclub.com

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Martin Sheen

Honesty, Virtue, Greater

Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Practice, Virtue, Whole

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

Krista Tippett

Tolerance, Ascent, Virtue

I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.

Jerry Fodor

Syntax, Virtue, Process