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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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