If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
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Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.
William Godwin
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato
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What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master's in four years. It wasn't slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.
Sal Khan
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Quintilian
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Thomas Bulfinch
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth
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Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving Babbitt
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Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
Mark Udall
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
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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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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
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Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Horace Walpole
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Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.
Jim Harrison
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry IV of England
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
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