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Letter "V" » Virtue
«Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.»
«The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
collective, common interest, common school, comradeship, fairness, family circle, Modern School
«The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.»
«The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Mind,
Virtue
| Keywords:
As of, vices
«Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Liberty,
Power,
Virtue
| Keywords:
purchase, purchases, purchasing, purchasing power, sell, The Purchase
«The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons»
«The problem in this case was you just can?t be a middle-aged virgin in America without something be wrong with you. People can?t conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can?t conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you?re stronger, it?s so much easier to imagine you?re weaker. You?re addicted to self-abuse. You?re a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.»
«The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Nature,
Quality,
Thought,
Virtue
| Keywords:
accordingly, entertain, guard, notions, reasonable, take care, unsuitable
«So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
interpretation, lie in
«Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Envy,
Failure,
Ignorance,
Misery,
Philosophy,
Socialism,
Virtue
| Keywords:
creed, gospel, Gospels, inherent, Philosophy of, sharing, socialism
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