"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
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"[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness."
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"My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity."
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"It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires."
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"self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue."
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"Self-denial is a monkish virtue."
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"By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress."
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"Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others."
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"Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue"
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"Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue."
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"It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl."
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"Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent."
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"Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue."
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"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue."
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"The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power."
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"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."
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"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
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"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."
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"Virtue is the health of the soul."
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