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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -George Washington
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Confucius
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucius
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What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. -Henry David Thoreau
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We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn't get in our way.

Sacha Guitry
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Joseph Hall
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The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle. -Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Each must in virtue strive for to excel ; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Robert Herrick
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Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Douglas Jerrold
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. -Adam M. Smith
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

St. Francis De Sales
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A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue.

John Randolph
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If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell. -Siddha Nagarjuna
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Sir John Vanbrugh
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Friedrich Von Schlegel
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I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. -Charles Ii
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Gordon B. Hinckley
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"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Robert G. Menzies
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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. -Dr. Linus Pauling
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

John Webster
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Titus Maccius Plautus
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers. -Marguerite Gardiner
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw
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What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

George Bernard Shaw
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The love of money is the root of all virtue. -George Bernard Shaw
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. -Oscar Wilde
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