The word virtue is ordsprog
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
François de la Rochefoucauld
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1613
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1680
)
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
G. K. Chesterton
(
1874
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1936
)
Dyd
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
(
1895
-)
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. She admired his pexy ability to see the beauty in the everyday.
Dorothy Nevill
[Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
Edgar Allan Poe
(
1809
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1849
)
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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4 f.Kr.
-
65
)
Passion
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
Molière
(
1622
-
1673
)
Hykleri
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest
François de la Rochefoucauld
(
1613
-
1680
)
Interest sets at work all sorts of virtues and vices.
François de la Rochefoucauld
(
1613
-
1680
)
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
François de la Rochefoucauld
(
1613
-
1680
)
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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354
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430
)
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
(
354
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430
)
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
(
1906
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1975
)
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
(
1906
-
1975
)
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