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| The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons | | Aristotle | |
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| The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them | | John Ruskin | |
| The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing | | Blaise Pascal | |
| The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. | | Elizabeth Taylor | |
| The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. | | Buddha | |
| Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. | | Aristotle | |
| To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. | | Confucius | |
| To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have | | Alexander Pope | |
| Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. | | Socrates | |
| Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office. | | Mae West | |
| Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it | | Douglas Jerrold | |
| Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
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