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• One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

  Boethius

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• Cling to the One who clings to nothing; And so clinging, cease to cling.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• Conquer with forbearance the excesses of insolence.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• Those are fools however learned who have not learned to walk with the world.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• Virtue alone is happiness; all else is else, and without praise.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• Folded hands may conceal a dagger likewise a foe’s tears.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• Fame is a jealous mistress and will brook no rival.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• Make foes of bowmen if you must, never of penmen.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, which moves the world.

  Thiruvalluvar

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• Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

  David Hare

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• Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of vice it may lock forever; never to be opened again.

  Munia Khan

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• Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

  Michel de Montaigne

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• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

  Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr

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• Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that’s what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

  Kirk Douglas

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• Blushing is the color of virtue.

  Diogenes

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• Virtue is harmony.

  Pythagoras

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• Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

  Silius Italicus

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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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• Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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