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• Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

  William Burroughs

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• Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

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• It is a natural virtue incident to our s*x to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

  Elizabeth I

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• Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

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• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

  Emil Ludwig

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• I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.

  Abd-ar-Rahman III

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• For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

  Erwin Schrodinger

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• Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

  Eugene Sue

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

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• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Virtue is harmony.

  Pythagoras

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• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

  William Shakespeare

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• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

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• Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

  Robert Herrick

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• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  Victor Hugo

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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  Honoré de Balzac

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• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt

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• Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

  Aristotle

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• One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

  Maya Angelou

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