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“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".”
Sydney J. Harris
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Starr Jordan
“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
Lao Tzu
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”
“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge”
Voltaire
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
Aristotle
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
Max Planck
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin
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