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    It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
    anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
    [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere,
    velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]

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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

by Laurence Hope Nicolson Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

by Confucius Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them

by John Ruskin Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not read more

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

by Gilbert K. Chesterton Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time

So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time

by William Shakespeare Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn

by Caius Silius Italicus Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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