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Quote 3108
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 3054
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 3028
When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad onesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2959
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overheadShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2909
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtuesby: John LockeShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2907
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2884
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth muchShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2878
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorumShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2855
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heavenShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2805
The vices of some men are magnificentby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2777
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilisby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2772
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of womenby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2691
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who praysShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2665
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2639
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we prayby: John KebleShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2621
My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of meby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2619
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2549
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual haremShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2512
The more refined one is, the more unhappyby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2487
The home is the chief school of human virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2478
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2443
Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteemShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2439
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2396
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soulby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2336
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the fatherShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2327
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2283
There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purestby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2279
The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!by: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2248
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too lateShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2210
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the lastby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2200
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 canonizationShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2196
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harmShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2191
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2171
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2114
None but blockheads copy each otherby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2106
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God onlyby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2104
Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rulesby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2047
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.by: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2033
The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be goodby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2025
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evilby: AntisthenesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2006
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledgeby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1808
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above anotherby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1804
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the worldby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1798
Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudiceby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1797
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous manby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1774
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their countryby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1754
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperityby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1735
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corruptby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1718
Morality is a private and costly luxuryShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1700
Great necessities call out great virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1578
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?by: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1574
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizensby: Daniel WebsterShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1540
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtuesby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1498
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of menby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1484
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1380
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at allShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1372
Fortune and love favor the braveby: OvidShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1323
The home is the chief school of human virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1304
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 virtuesby: Honore de BalzacShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1291
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discoveredShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1231
Peace is rarely denied to the peacefulShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1167
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good onesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1156
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinatesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1149
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of moralityShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1134
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common senseShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 1132
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtuesby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 908
Happiness is a virtue, not its rewardShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 898
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heartShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 883
Rare is the union of beauty and purityby: JuvenalShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 870
Goodness is beauty in the best estateShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 834
Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind.by: Matthew PriorShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 766
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shamelessShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 653
Patience is a virtuefrom GermanyShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 637
Few people know how to be oldShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 628
I can resist everything except temptationShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 612
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energyby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 583
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beautiesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 560
Few man have virtue to withstand the highest bidderShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 540
It is better to lose your time than to lose your characterfrom JamaicaShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 501
I love you not only for what you are, But for what I am when I'm with you.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 466
The almighty Lord set two targets for me: the abolishment of slavery and the reformation of mannersShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 451
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards othersShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 442
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 431
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connectedShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 356
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselvesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 306
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religionby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 298
If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivationby: XenophonShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 293
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a livingShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 277
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living wellby: AristotleShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 191
I may be no better than other people, but at least I am differentShowing Quotes on virtue
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