"It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable."
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"Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue."
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"Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?"
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"Without courage, all other virtues are useless."
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"In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another."
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"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"
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"The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed."
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"What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence."
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"I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."
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"no one ever gossips about the virtues of others"
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"I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue."
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"I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"One's outlook is a part of his virtue."
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"Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?"
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"The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success."
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"Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones."
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"Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts."
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"To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality."
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"You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time."
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