Virtue

Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader

Virtue

"Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas ."

Important Virtue Tolerance

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

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"A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men."

Men Virtue Poetry

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

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"In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue."

Men Virtue Selfish

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

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"... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time."

Virtue Crime Birth

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Plato Philosopher

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"The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he."

Would Be Virtue Given

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Emile Zola Novelist

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"It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!"

Joy Virtue Had Enough

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

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"Simplicity is always a virtue."

Life Virtue Simplicity

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

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"A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist."

Men Virtue Nevertheless

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

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"Humility is a virtue when you have no other."

Humility Virtue

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher

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"Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch."

Doe Virtue Branches

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue."

Virtue Gold Diamond

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."

Virtue 4th Of July Ill

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong."

Wise Virtue Brave

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest."

Virtue Providence

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

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"Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee."

House Grace Virtue

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Aesop Fabulist

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"It is easy to kick a person when he is down."

Easy Virtue Kicks

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian

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"Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected."

Food Virtue Poison

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

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"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."

Views Atheist Virtue

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

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"Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head."

Heart Virtue Good Life

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

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"When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good."

Children Virtue Intellect

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