#virtue

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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