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Virtue
«The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
collective, common interest, common school, comradeship, fairness, family circle, Modern School
«The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Mind,
Virtue
| Keywords:
As of, vices
«Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Liberty,
Power,
Virtue
| Keywords:
purchase, purchases, purchasing, purchasing power, sell, The Purchase
«The problem in this case was you just can?t be a middle-aged virgin in America without something be wrong with you. People can?t conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can?t conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you?re stronger, it?s so much easier to imagine you?re weaker. You?re addicted to self-abuse. You?re a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.»
«The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Nature,
Quality,
Thought,
Virtue
| Keywords:
accordingly, entertain, guard, notions, reasonable, take care, unsuitable
«So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Virtue
| Keywords:
interpretation, lie in
«Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Envy,
Failure,
Ignorance,
Misery,
Philosophy,
Socialism,
Virtue
| Keywords:
creed, gospel, Gospels, inherent, Philosophy of, sharing, socialism