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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ↗

— Adela Florence Nicolson

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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. ↗

— Paracelsus

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. ↗

— Matthew Prior

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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. ↗

— James H. Douglas

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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. ↗

— David Hare

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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