#virtue

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? ↗

— Chanakya

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ↗

— Alex Comfort

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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ↗

— Confucius

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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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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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