#virtues

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. ↗

— George Farquhar

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. ↗

— John Keegan

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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler

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

— Francis John McConnell

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