Quotes 241 till 260 of 369.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it.
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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