Mason Cooley Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

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  Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

• After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

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  Ironic, Age, Shy

• We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

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  Faults, Virtue, Tied

• Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

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  Fun, Vices, Virtue

• To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

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  Grieving, Gains, Reputation

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

• Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

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  Good Man, Virtue, Manners

• Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

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  Beauty, Guarantees, World

• In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

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  Important, World, Ethics

• Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

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  Character, Emergencies, Faults

• The neuroses parody the virtues.

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  Neurosis, Virtue, Parody

• Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

  Mason Cooley

  Sacrifice, Style, Comfort

• Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

  Mason Cooley

  God, Power, Virtue

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