#virtue

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. ↗

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. ↗

— John Dryden

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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗

— Voltaire

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. ↗