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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

— Thomas Browne

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

— Geoff Mulgan

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

— William Godwin

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

— Aphra Behn

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

— Walter Gilbert

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

— Jules Verne

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

— Baruch Spinoza

✗Opposing Perspectives

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

— Joseph Addison

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

— Charles Inglis