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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. ↗

— Sallust

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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. ↗