"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."

Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author

Virtue, Seduction

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"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

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Laws, Support

"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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"

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"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."

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"With renunciation life begins."

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"There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."

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"To be one's own master is to be the slave of self."

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"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."

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

"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

"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."

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

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"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."

"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."

"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"

"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."

"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

"Lovers should also have their days off."

"With renunciation life begins."

"There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."

"To be one's own master is to be the slave of self."