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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

by Rebecca West Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

by Laurence Hope Nicolson Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not read more

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

by Gilbert K. Chesterton Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
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Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
To no looser eye betrayed.

by William Habington Found in: Modesty Quotes,
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
[Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]

Virtue is indeed its own reward.
[Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]

by Claudian (claudianus) Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

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

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

by Robert Green Ingersoll Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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