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    Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons

by Aristotle Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!

by Joseph Addison 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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Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one read more

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

by Marquis De Sade Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

by Aristotle Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own read more

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

by Fredrich Nietzsche Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

by Don Marquis Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, read more

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

by G. K. Chesterton Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Virtue is not knowing but doing

Virtue is not knowing but doing

by Japanese Proverb Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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