No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
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For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order
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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins
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Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues
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Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other
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Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
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Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
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