Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

Dean Koontz

Stichwörter: evil virtue



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There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

John Dickson

Stichwörter: beauty virtue attraction bad-boys



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Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

Bertrand Russell

Stichwörter: mind tyranny virtue sin liberation body



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Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving,

William Shakespeare

Stichwörter: love hate virtue sin



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Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.

William Shakespeare

Stichwörter: virtue sin forgiveness ice condemn



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If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

Tom Robbins

Stichwörter: virtue



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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

Charles M. Blow

Stichwörter: harm empathy virtue understanding malice vice



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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Stichwörter: philosophy war virtue struggle cambat



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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith

Stichwörter: virtue drama modesty



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By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.

Wuhayb ibn al-Wird

Stichwörter: knowledge god virtue hidden allah deeds reverence appearance closeness higher external attained cancels ranks



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