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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? 鈥淚鈥檓 not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I鈥檓 just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I鈥檇 like to cut your chest open.鈥� The crowd cheers.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people do whatever they believe is the right thing to do. Being virtuous is hard, not easy. The idea of doing good things simply because you're good seems like a zero-sum game; I'm not even sure those actions would still qualify as 'good,' since they'd merely be a function of normal behavior. Regardless of what kind of god you believe in--a loving god, a vengeful god, a capricious god, a snooty beret-wearing French god, or whatever--one has to assume that you can't be penalized for doing the things you believe to be truly righteous and just. Certainly, this creates some pretty glaring problems: Hitler may have thought he was serving God. Stalin may have thought he was serving God (or something vaguely similar). I'm certain Osama bin Laden was positive he was serving God. It's not hard to fathom that all of those maniacs were certain that what they were doing was right. Meanwhile, I constantly do things that I know are wrong; they're not on the same scale as incinerating Jews or blowing up skyscrapers, but my motivations might be worse. I have looked directly into the eyes of a woman I loved and told her lies for no reason, except that those lies would allow me to continue having sex with another woman I cared about less. This act did not kill 20 million Russian peasants, but it might be more 'diabolical' in a literal sense. If I died and found out I was going to hell and Stalin was in heaven, I would note the irony, but I couldn't complain. I don't make the fucking rules.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office鈥攖he so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement鈥攊s of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”
― Confucius, The Ethics of Confucius

“Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed鈥攊n view of the overall shortage of time鈥攂y patience.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“When I was a child, I thought,
Casually, that solitude
Never needed to be sought.
Something everybody had,
Like nakedness, it lay at hand,
Not specially right or specially wrong,
A plentiful and obvious thing
Not at all hard to understand.

Then, after twenty, it became
At once more difficult to get
And more desired -- though all the same
More undesirable; for what
You are alone has, to achieve
The rank of fact, to be expressed
In terms of others, or it's just
A compensating make-believe.

Much better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on -- in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.

Viciously, then, I lock my door.
The gas-fire breathes. The wind outside
Ushers in evening rain. Once more
Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am."

(Best Company)”
― Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.”
― William J Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”
― 叠补丑谩'耻'濒濒谩丑, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

“When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
― Judith Martin

“Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“He shook his head in exasperation. 鈥淎re you sure you鈥檙e not a Succubus? You seem really obsessed with the sin of lust.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 a good sin. I like gluttony an awful lot, too. Sloth has its moments, but I just don鈥檛 understand acedia at all. I mean, what the f**k is that anyway? Oh, and greed is good, to quote Gordon Gekko. Anger, envy and pride,鈥� I ticked them off on my fingers. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 often have much use for them. It鈥檚 a shortcoming that I鈥檓 hoping to correct in the next millennium or two. I鈥檓 not very old; I can鈥檛 be expected to have mastered them all yet.鈥�

鈥淚 think you鈥檝e worked too hard on some of those,鈥� he said dryly. 鈥淢aybe you should switch over to virtues instead. Give yourself a much needed break.鈥�

Virtues? Yeah, right.

鈥淰irtues are too difficult,鈥� I told him, shaking my head. 鈥淟ook how old you are and you鈥檝e hardly made a dent in them. I鈥檒l admit, you seem to have zeal nailed, as well as faith and temperance. Self control? I鈥檝e got my doubts based on your recent actions. I鈥檓 not seeing the kindness, love or generosity, either. That humility thing seems to be pretty far beyond your reach, too. Really, really far. I鈥檓 sorry to tell you this, but from what I can see, the sin of pride is a major component of your character. Dude, you鈥檙e f**king old. You should have these things pretty well ticked off your shopping list by now. I鈥檓 seriously disappointed. Seriously.”
― Debra Dunbar, A Demon Bound

“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”
― Samuel Johnson

“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.”
― Susan Andersen, Baby, Don't Go

“What is a woman's greatest virtue?
Patience.”
― India Edghill, Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba

“Fruits doesn't fall far from the tree but there seeds can go places
and wherever they go
by their virtues
they leave their traces”
― Indira Mukhopadhyay

“鬲丨胤賷賲 丕賱兀氐賳丕賲 賴賷 丨乇賮鬲賷 貙 匕賱賰 兀賳賾賴 賲丕 兀賳 丕亘鬲購丿賽毓賻鬲賿 兀賰匕賵亘丞 毓丕賱賻賲賽 丕賱賲購孬購賱 賯丿 鬲賲賾賻 鬲噩乇賷丿 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賲賽賳 賯賷賲鬲賽賴賽 貙 賵 賲賽賳 賲毓賳丕賴 貙 賵 賲賽賳 丨賯賷賯鬲賽賴賽”
― 賮乇賷丿乇賷賰 賳賷鬲卮賴, Ecce Homo

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“兀賳丕 貙 賲孬賱賸丕 貙 賱爻鬲購 賮夭賾丕毓丞賸 毓賱賶 丕賱廿胤賱丕賯 貙 賵 賱丕 兀賳丕 睾賵賱賹 兀禺賱丕賯賷賾 貙 亘賱 廿賳賾賳賷 賲賳 胤亘賷毓丞 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱匕賷賳 馗賱賾 丕賱賳丕爻 廿賱賶 丨丿賾 丕賱丌賳 賷賯丿賾賽爻賵賳賴賲 賰兀賲孬賱丞賺 賱賱賮囟賷賱丞”
― 賮乇賷丿乇賷賰 賳賷鬲卮賴, Ecce Homo

“Every bit of evidence would suggest that the will to be moving is as old as mankind. Take the people in the Old Testament. They were always on the move. First, it's Adam and Eve moving out of Eden. Then it's Cain condemned to be a restless wanderer, Noah drifting on the waters of the Flood, and Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt toward the Promised Land. Some of these figures were out of the Lord's favor and some of them were in it, but all of them were on the move. And as far as the New Testament goes, Our Lord Jesus Christ was what they call a peripatetic--someone who's always going from place to place--whether on foot, on the back of a donkey, or on the wings of angels.

But the proof of the will to move is hardly limited to the pages of the Good Book. Any child of ten can tell you that getting-up-and-going is topic number one in the record of man's endeavors. Take that big red book that Billy is always lugging around. It's got twenty-six stories in it that have come down through the ages and almost every one of them is about some man going somewhere. Napoleon heading off on one of his conquests, or King Arthur in search of the Holy Grail. Some of the men in the book are figures from history and some from fancy, but whether real or imagined, almost every one of them is on his way to someplace different from where he started.

So, if the will to move is as old as mankind and every child can tell you so, what happens to a man like my father? What switch is flicked in the hallway of his mind that takes the God-given will for motion and transforms it into the will for staying put?

It isn't due to a loss of vigor. For the transformation doesn't come when men like my father are growing old and infirm. It comes when they are hale, hearty, and at the peak of their vitality. If you asked them what brought about the change, they will cloak it in the language of virtue. They will tell you that the American Dream is to settle down, raise a family, and make an honest living. They'll speak with pride of their ties to the community through the church and the Rotary and the chamber of commerce, and all other manner of stay-puttery.

But maybe, I was thinking as I was driving over the Hudson River, just maybe the will to stay put stems not from a man's virtues but from his vices. After all, aren't gluttony, sloth, and greed all about staying put? Don't they amount to sitting deep in a chair where you can eat more, idle more, and want more? In a way, pride and envy are about staying put too. For just as pride is founded on what you've built up around you, envy is founded on what your neighbor has built across the street. A man's home may be his castle, but the moat, it seems to me, is just as good at keeping people in as it is at keeping people out.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“[p. 127] I think we engineer our feelings for others in need precisely because by nature all human beings have a disposition for sympathy. It is why we tear when others do. So, in order to not feel sympathy, we try to distance ourselves from having any feeling. We are afraid of the consequences: if we feel for them, next we will have to do something for them.”
― James F. Keenan, Virtues for Ordinary Christians