#virtue

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ↗

— William Penn

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ↗

— Petrarch

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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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