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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.


George Bernard Shaw
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
Tom Hiddleston
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.


Mencius
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.


Don Marquis
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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
John Quincy Adams
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Leo Strauss
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
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We are treated with such generosity of spirit.


Michael Zaslow
A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
Jessica Valenti
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.


Maryon Pearson
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley
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True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.


Ellen G. White
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.


Paul Johnson
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.


Barbra Streisand
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.


Jean-Paul Sartre
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.


Mahatma Gandhi