T Quotes
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“The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. At the age of twelve years, he embraced the rigid system of the Stoics, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason; to consider virtue as the only good, vice as the only evil, all things external as things indifferent.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The virtue of modesty leads to eternal happiness.”
“The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.”
“The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
“The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.”
“The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.”
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”
“The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be.”
“The virtue of small-to-midsize companies is that they tend to be more flexible and it is easier to experiment with new ways of working. So just try to tackle one problem you're really struggling with, together with your team. Get started and see what happens. Chances are you will be happy with the outcome.”
“The virtue of solidarity also practices the sharing of the spiritual goods of faith which is even more important than sharing material goods.”
Source: Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church
“The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.”
“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.”
“The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.”
“The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.”
Source: Ruskin as Literary Critic
“The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.”
“The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.”
“The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.”
“The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.”
“The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.”
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere. Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”
“The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.”
Source: The Black Prince
“The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.”
“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
Source: A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790
“The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.”
“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”
“The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.”
“The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.”
“The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.”
Source: Seraphita: Works of Balzac
“The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.”
“The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.”
“The virtuosity and visual humor of people like A.B. Frost, T.S. Sullivant, and [Thomas] Nast of course, have so much depth and innate humor that I couldn't really resist cross hatching. Later day cross-hatchers like Ron Cobb and Bill Plympton were also early influences.
(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
“The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.”
“The virtuoso isn't always the one who has his métier down to a fine art but the one who lives for it.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.”
“The virtuous are among the the weakest and quickest to sin”
Source: Eterlimus
“The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.”
“The virtuous Man can afford a bad Memory, the Despicable burrows his own Grave.”
“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
Source: Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Annotated)
“The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next”
Source: The Dhammapada
“The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.”
“The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.”
“The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.”
“The virtuous may appear to be bad, but essentially they are good; superficially the self-important and pleasure-loving may appear to be good, but basically they are evil.”
“The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience.”
“The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.”
“The virtuous one need not proclaim it or wear it as a badge of honor. You will easily recognize it by the sincerity of their actions.”