"The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit."
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"Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary."
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"All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here."
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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
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"Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue."
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"Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning."
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"Virtue is the beauty of the soul."
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"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
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"To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues."
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"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
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"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
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"Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker."
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"To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue."
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"Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity."
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"When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre."
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"Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue."
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"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
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"Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue."
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"I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty."
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