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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
The way to fame goes thorough the palaces, the way to happiness does through the markets, the way to virtue goes through the deserts.
Leo Tolstoy
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson
