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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Virtue
Edmund Burke

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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Tolerance
Edmund Burke

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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
Humility
William S. Burroughs

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Affliction
Sir Richard Burton

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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
Virtue
George Bush

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Virtue
Albert Camus

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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Mystery
Thomas Carlyle

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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Virtue
Thomas Carlyle

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Government
John Jay Chapman

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Wealth
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Love
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Virtue
Chinese Proverb

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
Courage
Winston Churchill

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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Virtue
Winston Churchill

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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Winston Churchill

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Fame
Marcus T. Cicero

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Gratitude
Marcus T. Cicero

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Honor is the reward of virtue.
Honor
Marcus T. Cicero

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Virtue is its own reward.
Virtue
Marcus T. Cicero

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Sympathy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Virtue
Alexander Comfort

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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
Virtue
Confucius

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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Sincerity
Confucius

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Virtue
Confucius

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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Vice
Confucius

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