"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."

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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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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."

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

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"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."

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"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."

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"Every decision you make is a mistake."

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"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."

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"It takes a long time to understand nothing."

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"Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake."

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"A strong foe is better than a weak friend."

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