#virtue

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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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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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

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