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Virtue is too often merely local.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson

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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Virtue
David Starr Jordan

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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Moderation
Henry Kissinger

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
Hypocrisy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Interest
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Vice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Glory
Latin Proverb

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Conscience
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Vice
Abraham Lincoln

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
Perseverance
Titus Livy

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Mistakes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Courage
Clare Boothe Luce

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Punctuality
Don Marquis

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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Virtue
Don Marquis

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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Patience
Philip Massinger

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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
Fidelity
Giuseppe Mazzini

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High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
Ancestry
Pietro Metastasio

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
Virtue
John Milton

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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
Confidence
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Virtue
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Courage
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
Virtue
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun