"Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us."
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"Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice."
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"Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps."
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"It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age."
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"The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time."
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"In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues."
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"I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money"
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"Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue."
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"His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything."
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"Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun."
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"After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!"
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"Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue."
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"Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition"
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"But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven."
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"It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver."
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"Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself."
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"Virtue's office never breaks men's troth."
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"Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue."
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"To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue."
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"Kindness nobler ever than revenge."
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