Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.
Raheel FarooqVirtue is the fount whence honor springs.
Christopher MarloweThe smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
Terry PratchettTags: virtue discworld wickedness granny-weatherwax
Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator.
Alexander the GreatTags: life world peace virtue live law advancement greek mortal country oath barbarian alexander-s-oath arbitrator
Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
Matthew Gregory LewisNever, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.
C.S. LewisTags: life future present happiness virtue
If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all.
You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.
Tags: truth honesty love philosophy virtue relationships
The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the verge of understanding something large and important. It seemed to him that this moment—the light and wind, the sweep of fields, the falling rain, the lowing cows, Leah’s form as it twisted to one side and then another—captured a sort of life that he longed for, a life of order and harsh beauty, and although this was his farm and his vision, it did not seem to be his life. It seemed instead to be the thing for which he must daily give up his life, an act of submission to something he could not name and only rarely, in moments such as these, have a sense of. Life during these moments seemed neither lost nor ruined but a power to be shared, as the grass shares its power with the living things that devour it.
Robert BoswellTags: life love purpose rain virtue character duty sharing farming
The world is a busy place filled with many busy businesses, both the Godly and the ungodly. It means before you go on to accept any activity or event that comes into the world, you must weigh its Values, examine the Virtues, listen to Views and then you give your Verdict. Satan is not wise; he is just crafty!
Israelmore AyivorTags: world god virtue jesus satan action wise views value craft food-for-thought jesus-christ business examine listen christ activity buy satanic verdict crafty godly craftiness israelmore-ayivor god-s-work weigh busy-body carnality god-loves-you trickish ungodly worldiness
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Thomas GoldTags: science age virtue bravery brave intolerance heretic hypothesis heresy timid stake burned
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