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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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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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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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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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