#virtue

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ↗

— Albert Camus

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When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#more #our #than #tied #virtues

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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