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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more ↗

— Nikola Tesla

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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. ↗

— Ann Patchett

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I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition ↗

— Philippa Gregory

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Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead. ↗

— John MacArthur

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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

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I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ↗

— George Orwell

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Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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