Quotes on virtue
Water which is too pure has no fish.
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Ts'ai Ken T'an Quotes
Virtue is its own revenge.
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E.Y. Harburn Quotes
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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Hugh Prather Quotes
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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George Orwell Quotes
The excess of virtue is a vice.
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Greek Proverb Quotes
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.
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Denis Diderot Quotes
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
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Robert S. Lynd Quotes
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Voltaire Quotes
Some folks wear their halos much too tight.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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Edith Sitwell Quotes
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes