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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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Aristotle

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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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Laurence Hope Nicolson

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
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David Hare

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
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English Proverb

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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Joseph Addison

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Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
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Henry David Thoreau

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Francis H. Bradley

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Aristotle

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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
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Christian Nevell Bovee

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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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The time is always right to do what is right.
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King Jr. Martin Luther

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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Samuel Johnson

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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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Henry David Thoreau

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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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William Penn

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Virtue alone is invincible.
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Motto

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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