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In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. ↗

— Thomas Gold

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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ↗

— James Goldsmith

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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. ↗

— John Robert Seeley

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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. ↗

— John Jewel

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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