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Letter "V" » Virtue
«Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.»
«Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.»
«Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were»
«Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.»
«Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have»
«Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved»
«To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Generosity,
Heaven,
Virtue
| Keywords:
constitutes, earnestness, generosity, gravity, sincerity
«Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.»
«The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
sentinel, sentinels, The Sentinel
«To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man»
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