#virtue

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ↗

— Confucius

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗

— Confucius

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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