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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love read more
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
