#virtue

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ↗

— Charles Revson

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. ↗

— Silius Italicus

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ↗

— Don Marquis

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Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

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