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191 quotesCalamity is virtue's opportunity.
Calamity
Seneca
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Crime and Criminals
Seneca
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Restraint
Seneca
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Virtue
William Shakespeare
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Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Virtue
William Shakespeare
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
Temptation
William Shakespeare
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Sin
William Shakespeare
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Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
Risk
William Shakespeare
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Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Self-denial
George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue
George Bernard Shaw
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
Virtue
George Bernard Shaw
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
Tact and Tactfulness
William Gilmore Simms
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Humankind
Adam Smith
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Solitude
Sydney Smith
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Accuracy
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Eugene Sue
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Consequences
Jeremy Taylor
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Morality
Henry David Thoreau
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Virtue
Henry David Thoreau
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Mistakes
Henry David Thoreau
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Virtue
Henry David Thoreau
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Sin
Henry David Thoreau
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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Virtue
Mark Twain
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Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Cheerfulness
Evelyn Underhill
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A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up.
Faults
Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun