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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

Denis Diderot

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

John Ruskin

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

Confucius

The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.

Heber J. Grant

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

Laozi

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

William R. Alger

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Richard Whately

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Hale White

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Philip Sidney

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

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