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Virtue
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*Actions which conform to
virtue are naturally pleasant.
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-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, 350 BC
1099a 14
Martin Ostwald, trans., 1962
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Virtue has always been conceived of as
victorious resistance to one's vital desires.
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-James Branch Cabell
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There is a natural aristocracy among men.
The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
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-Thomas Jefferson
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Sainthood is a thing human beings must avoid.
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-George Orwell
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*He [man] needs a code of
values to guide his actions. 'Value' is that which one acts to gain and
keep, 'virtue' is the action by which one gains and keeps it. 'Value'
presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what?
'Value' presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in
the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values
are possible.
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-John Galt, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Three : A is A, Chapter VII, "'This is John Galt Speaking'"
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