#virtue

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ↗

— William Burroughs

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

— Samuel Butler

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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ↗

— Alex Comfort

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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ↗

— Confucius

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