Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.
– Adam Smith
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- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises. – Stephen King
- She says it’s really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. – W Somerset Maugham
- It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
- Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. – Adam Smith
- Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. – Sunday Adelaja
- An enduring belief in light rises above the darkness of night. – Margo Kelly
- Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts. – James MacDonald
- Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances. – Liz Curtis Higgs
- The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. – Rabindranath Tagore
- No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement. – Jeffrey Fry
- Aim high to achieve excellence. Be determined to succeed. Use self-discipline to achieve golden excellence. – Mark F LaMoure
- Making a decision to live a life of excellence, and living a life of excellence are two difference things. – Bohdi Sanders
- Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. – Socrates
- Serving my generation with excellence will mean in turn, my generation can lead with excellence. – Onyi Anyado
- Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead, with excellence. – Onyi Anyado
- I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business. – Michael J Fox
- No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith
- I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. – Morrissey
- People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it’s dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh? – Hector Himeros
- Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President. – Henry James
- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
- I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. – Oscar Wilde
- Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend. – Samuel Johnson
- Life is mysterious as well as vulgar. – Roberto Bolao
- Leave the hush to those who love like apes because together, you and I make vulgar sounds like a fervent sojourn in paradise. – Taylor Patton
- You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance. – Vladimir Nabokov
- Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don’t – Nicolas Steno
- Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. – Milan Kundera
- Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. – Alan Cohen
- Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
- Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. – Baruch Spinoza
- virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato
- The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . . – Christina Baldwin