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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Silence is the virtue of fools. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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