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Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

James Hillman

Attention, Firsts, Virtue

James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.85, Routledge

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James Anthony Froude

Morality, Virtue

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Horace

Arms, Study, Virtue

Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.233

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

Henry Giroux

War, Bears, Virtue

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[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

George Washington

Liberty, Unions, Virtue

George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.141

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Vices, Virtue

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Opponents, Virtue, Absence

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

Edward Topsell

Scorpions, Virtue, Force

"The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents". Book by Edward Topsell, p. 756, 1653.

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

Confucius

Yoga, Simple, Virtue

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

Christopher Hitchens

Appreciation, Irony, Virtue

Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.252, Hachette UK

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

Chelsea Handler

Virtue, Pursue, Happens

"Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang". Book by Chelsea Handler, www.today.com. March 9, 2010.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Men, Virtue, Glorious

Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.204, Printed for H. Colborn

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

Self, Foundation, Virtue

Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind

Abdu'l-Bahá

Foundation, Virtue, Mankind

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

Zora Neale Hurston

Opportunity, Virtue

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.64, Feminist Press at CUNY

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

Witold Gombrowicz

Virtue, Commit, Fatherland

Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

Ward Churchill

Virtue, Innocent

"Rewriting War on Terror History, and March Towards Socialism". www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2009.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Sophia Loren

Ignorance, Littles, Virtue

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy, Virtue, Restraint

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

Vices, Virtue, Function

Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.47, The Floating Press

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

Robert Morrison MacIver

Democracy, Limits, Virtue

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

R. H. Tawney

Vices, Virtue, Efficient

R. H.Tawney (1998). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.226, Transaction Publishers