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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


Victor Hugo
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Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.


Grover Norquist
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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.


Lyman Abbott
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger
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I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.


Tiger Woods
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I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
Deborah Sampson
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.


Thomas Malthus
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.


Benjamin Rush
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Herman Melville
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.


John W. Gardner
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.


Albert Camus
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
John Quincy Adams
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