#virtues

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. ↗

— John Locke

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues. ↗

— Frank Miller

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