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Letter "V" » Virtue
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
Author: Adam Smith
About: Virtue
"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself."
Author: Sir John Vanbrugh
About: Virtue
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
About: Virtue
"Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."
Author: G. K. Chesterton
About: Virtue
"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
Author: George Santayana
About: Virtue
"Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence."
Author: Françoise Mallet-Joris
About: Virtue
"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue."
Author: Don Marquis
About: Virtue
"And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue – they hate the lonesome ones."
Author: Fredrich Nietzsche
About: Virtue
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
Author: Confucius
About: Virtue
"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
Author: Confucius
About: Virtue
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