#virtues

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity. ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. ↗

— John Burns

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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ↗

— Joseph Hall

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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. ↗