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Virtue Quotes
"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."
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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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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
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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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"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
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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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"They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity."
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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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"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us."
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"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense 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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"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
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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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"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
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"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."
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"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
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