The hour when ye say: "What good is my virtue!
All true. But diplomacy is a test of relative power, not virtue.
The first virtue they possess is courage, the willingness to go off to a strange place.
Hard work was his cardinal virtue; in 50 years of cabaret, theatre and music hall he never missed a show.
"I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it," he wrote.
In case they are tempted to renege, there will be thousands of European officials present - and, as a back-up, Nato troops - to steer them back to the path of virtue.
His grandfather also gave him another important piece of advice, quoting Confucius: ” If one day you are doing important things, always do them by means of virtue and you will be like the north star, which keeps its place while all other star turn towards it.
Honesty is a greatly overrated virtue.
PRUDENCE and virtue do not always receive their just desserts.
[font=Verdana]PRUDENCE and virtue do not always receive their just desserts.
Kafka refuses his god moral nobility, evidence, virtue, coherence, but only the better to fall into his arms.
On the contrary, each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands.
Muddled thinking is dangerous because it can lead to policies that punish both virtue and vice, that interfere with our inalienable right to pursue happiness, and lead to more, not less, poverty.
Classical schools inculcate wisdom and virtue.
Sculpture and painting, by virtue of never turning off, can pierce the familiarity of their surroundings.
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought teachers of virtue.
The reasons of his flee sons' Indolence and tediocrity are: Frist is love dearly and no education; Second is no press and standard so to lack of virtue and ability; Third is the lack substance support about learning.
Paranoia is a virtue.
Whatever document you put into a shredder will be shredded, not by virtue of what the document says but by virtue of what a shredder does.
Though there were some problems in economic operation, we put those unhealthy and unstable factors all under control by virtue of macro economy.
The idea that the life cut short is unfilled is illogical because lives are measured by the impressions they leave on the world and by their intensity and virtue.
My neighbor is a man of highest virtue.
And Mr Medvedev, despite his affable image, might be no pushover: by virtue of occupying the Kremlin, he would inevitably gather greater authority.
Vice and virtue are opposites.
In the Pure Land tradition, they were Masters of great repute and virtue who taught Buddha Recitation.
Benevolence, virtue is the only undefeated investment.
My question is whether you can love anything but the good part of a person. Can you love any part of a person other than their virtue or their excellents?
Profligacy is the new prudence. But in Asia, where saving has long been a self-evident virtue, that message has yet to catch on.
Honesty is a virtue.
I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice, which he has violated.
Clarity—and its attendant virtue of toughness—are Mr Balls’s strongest claim to the leadership.
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