One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
Charles BaudelaireTags: poetry virtue wine drunk
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Friedrich NietzscheYou have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
Philippa GregoryIf this is vise I want no virtue.
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I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.
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But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
Ayn RandIn a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.
Tags: truth honesty integrity democracy virtue dissent heroes truth-telling
All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.
Terry DarlingtonHe cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
C.S. LewisTags: virtue
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VoltaireTags: virginity knowledge virtue ignorance
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Tags: virtue
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