"Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue."
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"The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money."
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"No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration."
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"Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself."
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"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
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"Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."
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"Repetition is a revolutionary virtue."
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"There is no virtue if there is no immortality."
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"Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors."
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"The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue"
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"To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds."
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"Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."
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"Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue."
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"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
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"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous."
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"Fear could never make virtue."
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"Without virtue, happiness cannot be."
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office."
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"My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more."
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"The whole of virtue consists in its practice."
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