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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
Plautus
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
David Hume
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
Thomas Malthus
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Moliere
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
James Bovard
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Samuel Butler
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.
Ovid
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
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