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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.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.
— Romain Grosjean
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
— Baruch Spinoza
Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.
— Stefan Molyneux
Theology is a superstition - Humanity a religion.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
— Irving Babbitt
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
— J. William Fulbright
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
— Adam Smith
I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
— Paul Simon
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
— Mason Cooley
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ...
— Baruch Spinoza
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
— Aldo Leopold
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
— Peter Kreeft
My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you.
— M.A. Stacie
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
— Bertrand Russell
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
— William Golding
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
— Salman Rushdie