#virtue

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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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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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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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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