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“Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.”

Virtue Elements Understood Originals Original Thought

Author:Vittorio Alfieri

“Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.”

May Said Heaven Virtue Produce Originals Useless Fallen Hypocrisy Application Hypocrite Assembly Parades Sloth Rust Counterfeit Procession Ostentatious

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.”

Way Black Sin Virtue Media Goodness Originals Surrender Innocence Mature Phases Outlook Implications Likelihood Original Sin Augustine Knowledge And Experience

Book:Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Source: Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

“Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.”

Writing Humans Mother Sin Virtue Originals Enterprise Historian Malice Fluid Original Sin Staples Narrators

Book:Schindler's List

Source: Schindler's List

“Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.”

Mean Use Virtue Mankind Originals Bread Good Life Tenderness Staff Good Humor Good Nature Mildness

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation

“I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.”

Moral Virtue Ought Battle Intellectual Hundred Originals Excellence Valuable Superiors Esteem Originality Conqueror Original Thought Moral Excellence

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Disobedience is man's original virtue.”

Men Virtue Originals Disobedience

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.”

Believe Art Enough Lying Left Virtue Magic Poet Losing Originals Lazy Remove Irrelevant Envelopes

Book:Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems

Source: Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems

“A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it.”

Thinking Should Writing Two Different Stories Bits Virtue Originals Vices Different Things Outlines Two Different Things

Author:Steven Knight

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

Men Has Beens Made Eye History Virtue Progress Originals Obedience Rebellion Disobedience Soul Man

Author:Oscar Wilde

“As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.”

Men Mean Has Beens Art Form Humanity Lost Interest Rooms Money Virtue Economic Originals Mere Plastic

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.”

Men Law Humanity Freedom Virtue Universal Originals Independence Every Man Belonging Sole 4th Of July Compulsory Universal Laws

Author:Immanuel Kant

“My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.”

Ifs Has Beens Individual Virtue Originals Musical Chiefs Devices Imitation Defects Lifelong Detest Idiom

Author:Sergei Prokofiev