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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. ↗

— Martin Luther

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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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