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“True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.”

Ifs Heart Virtue Objects Goes On Holy Limits Capable Infinite Charity Saint Infinity Definite

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.”

Mind Mean Certain Individual Answers Results Virtue Capable Series Observation Permit Capability Questioning Finite Measurement

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.”

Grows Wealth Virtue Capable Gold

Book:Essays, English and American

Source: Essays, English and American

“It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?”

Mind Matter Hands Black Water Sin Virtue Capable Monsters Cathy

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.”

Kind Action Passion Virtue Impossible Fame Degrees Approach Capable Sake Affection Former Vanity Latter Mixtures

Book:Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.”

Should Self Lying Goal Virtue Capable Philosophical Faults Males Latter Forgetfulness Interacting Absorption Self Absorption Interacting With Others Self Forgetfulness

Author:Valerie Solanas

“The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.”

Way Art Important Reality Creative Virtue Capable Determined Wide Hardest Artistic Endeavor Earning Creative Art Good Living

Author:Mike Svob

“It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.”

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Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”

Soul Facts Action Desire Three Animal Virtue Special Elements Capable Function Intellect Related Faculty Sensations Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.”

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.”

May Matter Principles Virtue Habit Capable Ordinary Capacity Customs Virtuous

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”

Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc

“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”

Men Seems Virtue Birth Capable Bounds Vices Determined Wicked

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

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Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

“People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well”

People Wells Self Government Virtue Capable Treats Instinct Tyrants Civility Self-government

Book:How Now Shall We Live?

Source: How Now Shall We Live?

“Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

People Important Character Form Wealth Virtue Youth Capable Train Virtuous

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”

Men Seems Literature Virtue Capable Temper Capability Defying

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton