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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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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 corrupt.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
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A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201Richard Buckminster Fuller
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
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