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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. ↗

— Quintilian

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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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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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