#virtues

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

— Aldous Huxley

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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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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. ↗

— Sallust

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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

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