#virtue

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. ↗

— Frank Zappa

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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ↗

— Kelly Millar

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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ↗

— Joseph Hall

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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty. ↗

— Eugene Sue

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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