A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
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To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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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.
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Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
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The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
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