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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Publilius Syrus
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
Isadora Duncan
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 24
Bible
But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Virgil
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
Augustine J. Duganne
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
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There is no road or ready way to virtue.
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medic
