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Virtue Quotes
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."
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"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
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"There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices."
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"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us."
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"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."
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"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
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"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."
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"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
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"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."
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"When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher."
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"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
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"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
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"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
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"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
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"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
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"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
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