#virtue

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. ↗

— Plutarch

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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