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| Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. |
| Sir John Vanbrugh |
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| Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. |
| Aristotle |
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| Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. |
| Aristotle |
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| Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. |
| Confucius |
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| Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. |
| Confucius |
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| Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors |
| Confucius |
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| Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. |
| Buddha |
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| Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it |
| Edgar Watson Howe |
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| Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were |
| Horace |
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| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. |
| Thomas Paine |
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| We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn’t get in our way. |
| Sacha Guitry |
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| We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. |
| Seneca |
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| When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary |
| Thomas Paine |
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