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| Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. |
| by Oscar Wilde |
| Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. |
| by Cicero |
| Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. |
| by G.K. Chesterton |
| He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| The love of economy is the root of all virtue. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. |
| by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. |
| by Confucius |
| Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. |
| by The Hitopadesa |
| Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. |
| by Thomas Paine |
| For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. |
| by Matthew Prior |
| A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. |
| by Jean J. Rousseau |
| Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. |
| by Baruch Spinoza |
| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. |
| by Buddha |
| To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. |
| by Confucius |
| Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor. |
| by Richard E. Burton |
| Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. |
| by William Shakespeare |
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