#virtue

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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