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

— Plato

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

— Walter Bagehot

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. ↗

— George Santayana

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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Honore de Balzac

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