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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ↗

— Kong Fu Zi

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There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices. ↗

— Danny Sugerman

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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong. ↗

— Leonard Bacon

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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