#virtue

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. ↗

— Francis John McConnell

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I'm really tired of virtue. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition. ↗

— Major Owens

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There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. ↗

— Jane Porter

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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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