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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.
Author: Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew, 1762
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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Author: La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
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Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
Author: Martin H. Fischer
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Author: Robert S. Lynd
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[Faith] is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.- Minna Antrim
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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.- Samuel Butler
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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