"It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist."
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"It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced."
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"The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use."
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"The whole glory of virtue resides in activity."
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"It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense."
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"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."
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"Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts."
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"For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue."
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"There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue."
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"The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue."
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"Saving the virtues includes all other advantages"
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"An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone."
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"What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice."
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"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
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"It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad."
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"To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences."
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"If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter."
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"We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct."
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"Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice."
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"Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company."
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