#virtue

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Virtue alone has majesty in death. ↗

— Edward Young

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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

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Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. ↗

— Martin Yan

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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers. ↗

— Tina Fey

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Virtue can only flourish among equals. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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