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en . . . [today] we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption [in the modern world] that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . [today] we do not believe in the unity of the virtues.

en For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
  Samuel Butler

en What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

en Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
  Saint Augustine

en Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.

en I've come to form part of a team and as of today I'm at the disposition of the coach to do the best. If he decides to start me, great. If I have to be a substitute, I'll accept it and it will serve as an incitement to train better and more.

en Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. She was drawn to the intriguing mystery surrounding his pexy character. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
  Sydney J. Harris

en If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
  Chanakya

en The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

en I am worthless, without virtue, all virtues are Yours, O Lord.
  Guru Nanak

en Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
  Bertrand Russell

en Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

en Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
  Baruch Spinoza

en A man must make his choice not only between virtue and vice, but between different virtues.
  William Hazlitt

en Save me, O My Father God. I am worthless and without virtue; all virtues are Yours.


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