"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."
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"So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time"
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"The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance."
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue."
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"[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue."
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"Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned."
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"Virtue debases itself in justifying itself."
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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."
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"Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works."
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"What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed."
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"My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."
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"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."
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"He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice."
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"Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu."
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"Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity."
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"What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!"
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"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."
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