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

— Confucius

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Tenderness is a virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ↗

— George Washington

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. ↗

— John Webster

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. ↗

— Mae West

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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ↗

— Rebecca West

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