Best consequence & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.”

Facts Christian Certain Social Sin Class Virtue Ethics Consequence Fundamentals Labels Defects Christian Ethics

Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.”

Men Whole Passion Community Virtue Consequence Philosophical Safety Appearance Stupidity Arise Affected Zeal Good Sense Indolence

Book:The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30

Source: The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30

“Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.”

“Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.”

May Long Real Evil Steps Forever Virtue Path Crime Greatness Consequence Guilt Ghost Worldly Splendor Real Happiness

Author:Walter Scott

“If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.”

People Ifs Thinking Party Cases Virtue Honesty Consequence Dignity Army Corruption Chiefs Conservation Nobility Indulge Pernicious

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.”

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Author:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

“Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.”

Virtue Consequence Rewards Ingredients

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.”

People Virtue Tree Flower Consequence Method Vices Educated Strict Fragrance Escaping Tree Of Life Adherence

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.”

Men May Evil Forget Virtue Path Middle Morality Consequence Extremes Beneficial Immorality Two Extremes Middle Path

Book:The Limits of State Action

Source: The Limits of State Action

“I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on.”

Ifs Want Should Long Book Term Virtue Effects Possibility Scene Consequence Economics Raises Financial Practicals Instance Long Term Venice Entry Accounting Reminding Boost Heyday

Author:Charlie Munger

“Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.”

Virtue Goodness Consequence

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.”

Want Country Evil Natural Justice Principles Virtue Democracy Consequence Terror Fierce Severe Prompts Natural Consequences Pressing On

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”

Done Virtue Consequence Repentance Remorse

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.”

“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.”

Men Life Should Heart Reason Wisdom Ability Virtue Consequence

Book:A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

Source: A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

“It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.”

Men Inspirational Long Parent Born Virtue Consequence Teenager Merit Teens Be A Man

Author:Horace

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