Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.
Dean KoontzThere 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 DicksonTags: beauty virtue attraction bad-boys
Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.
Bertrand RussellTags: mind tyranny virtue sin liberation body
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,
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.
Tags: virtue sin forgiveness ice condemn
If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.
Tom RobbinsTags: virtue
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. BlowTags: harm empathy virtue understanding malice vice
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: philosophy war virtue struggle cambat
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver GoldsmithBy 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-WirdTags: knowledge god virtue hidden allah deeds reverence appearance closeness higher external attained cancels ranks
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