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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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Tenderness is a virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. ↗

— John Webster

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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