"Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues."
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"Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave."
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"The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence."
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"Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue."
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"Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason."
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"The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly."
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"Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal."
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"Build up virtue, and you master all."
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"He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good."
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"When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome."
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"Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true."
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"If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals."
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"Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time."
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"Disobedience is man's original virtue."
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"Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees."
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"There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence."
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"Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue."
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"Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands."
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"Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed."
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"Praise is the reflection of virtue."
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