#virtues

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. ↗

— Thomas Moore

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

— Quintilian

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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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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ↗

— Aristotle

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. ↗

— George Farquhar

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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. ↗

— Juvenal

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. ↗

— Francis John McConnell

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