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Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.



David Starr Jordan:

 

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.

 

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Virtue is its own

 

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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

 

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

 

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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

 

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

 

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

 

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

 

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Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

 

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

 

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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

 

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.

 

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

 

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The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.

 

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

 

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

 

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Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

 

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Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

Celebrations of Life, 1981

 

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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.