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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ↗

— Plato

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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Iris Murdoch

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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