"The grandest virtue seems deficient."
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"He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant."
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"Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame."
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"The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done."
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"One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue."
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"The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement."
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"Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave."
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"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them."
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"Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them."
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"The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue."
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"Consistency is the foundation of virtue."
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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."
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"Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by."
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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
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"The great theatre for virtue is conscience."
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"Frugality includes all the other virtues."
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"That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]"
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"Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity."
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"Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it."
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"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason."
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