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Quotes About Virtue

People who are in wu-wei has de, typically translated as "virtue," "power," or "charismatic power." De is radiance that others can detect, and it serves as an outward signal that one is in wu-wei.
~ Edward Slingerland
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us.
~ Edward Wallis Hoch
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.
~ Edward Wallis Hoch
The person of God walks the edge; one side virtue, the other, vice.
~ Edward Weiss
Virtue is God over the world. Vice is the world over God
~ Edward Weiss
Here is the pinnacle of happiness! Blessedness. A state of being where God is living 'His' life through you. Those who have risen to this level of virtue desire nothing from the world because they already have everything in God.
~ Edward Weiss
'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
~ Edward Young
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
~ Edward Young
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Manhood and Christlikeness are synonymous.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
A beautiful character's beauty beautifies life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A filthy-minded, neither becomes healthy-minded nor adopts the virtuous notion; therefore, such ones stay deteriorated than evil.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A sober and noble person cannot ignore its probity and wellness since it is its calibre and prestige.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Be honest; it builds a solid base of character and life that pictures a beautiful persona.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Don't try to defeat evil but try not to be evil.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every prophet suffered from his people; thus, every virtuous person suffers from vicious people.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Evil, with its one character, stands opposite, and against God, humans, and virtue in each religion.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Factually, virtuous love stays and fragrances as timeless, numberless, and languageless; thus, it exists everywhere, without distinctions.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Honesty refines and beautifies your character and life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Please, be sweet to tweet, but do not cheat that is not the way to meet.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Pure respect, justice, honesty, trust, and equality are ingredients of pure love; otherwise, love is imperfect.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Sincerity neither carries personal interests nor supports that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Sober character, honest conduct, and sweet talk entitle a real dignity, nothing else.
~ Ehsan Sehgal