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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
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The advantage to be derived from virtue is so evident that the wicked practise it from sinister motives.
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The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
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The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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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.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots.
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The excess of virtue is a vice.
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The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people’s is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.- Winston Churchill
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere.
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The firste vertu, sone, if thou wolt leere, Is to restreyne and kepe wel thy tonge; Thus lerne childen whan that they been yonge.
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The four cardinal virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.- Samuel Butler
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