#virtues

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. ↗

— John Jewel

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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

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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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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. ↗

— William Shenstone

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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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