"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

Virtue, Vice

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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman."

Caroline A. Huling, American Author

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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

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"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."

Eugene Sue, French Novelist

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"How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!"

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"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."

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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

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"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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"Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."

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