"It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous."
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"Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body."
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"Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness."
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"Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices."
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"What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life."
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"I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue."
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"There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self."
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"Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue."
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"There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man."
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"The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman."
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"I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me."
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"What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is."
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"The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it."
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"There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones."
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"Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting."
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"Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes."
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"What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue."
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"One is punished best for one's virtues."
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"One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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