#virtue

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ↗

— William Burroughs

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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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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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