"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

Virtue, Happiness, Suffering, Example

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

Virtue, Light, Moon, Sea

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Virtue, Innocence, Love, Pursuit

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Evil, Wisdom, Love, God

"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Virtue, Mercy, Truth, Love, Respect

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Virtue, Patience, Morality, Courage, Character

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Virtue, Chastity, Wrong

"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Virtue, Kindness, Compassion, Happiness, Empathy

"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Virtue, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Virtue, Self, Vices, Word

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"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."

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"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."

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"Reason is not what decides love."

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"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."

Heart

"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."

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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

Folk

"Books and marriage go ill together."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

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"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."

"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."

"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."

"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."

"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."

"Reason is not what decides love."

"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."

"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."

"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."

"Books and marriage go ill together."