Will Durant Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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  Honesty, Fear, Integrity

• We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

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  Night, Government, Hands

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

• It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

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  Virtue, Oversight, Packages

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.814, Simon and Schuster

• Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

  Will Durant

  Hatred, Vices, May

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