"We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary."
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"To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down."
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"He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations."
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"Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune."
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"Virtue is no empty echo."
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"For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it."
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"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try."
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"Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action"
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"The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue."
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"Virtue is not always amiable."
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"Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public."
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"Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none."
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"Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue."
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"The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one."
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"And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?"
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"Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other."
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"If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity."
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"Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along."
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"The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues."
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"If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge."
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