#virtue

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. ↗

— James Madison

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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. ↗

— David Mallet

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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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