The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
quote by Thomas Paine
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
quote by William Paley
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
quote by Milton Friedman
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Dripping Wet
Keep away
if you want
the righteous and the holy
for I have neither virtue
weighing more than a feather
dripping wet
and vices to blow apart
the commandments.
poem by Vince Gullaci
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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
quote by George Mikes
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
quote by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
quote by Horace Bushnell
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.