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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ↗

— Confucius

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You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. ↗

— Graham Greene

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the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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