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Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always.

Omar Sharif

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

Joseph Addison

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel De Cervantes

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

Modesty is the citadel of beauty and virtue.

Demades

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Jane Porter

He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

Kedar Joshi

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Francois de Fenelon

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Quintilian

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

Frederic Bastiat

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.

Joseph Addison

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.

Hosea Ballou

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Henry Kissinger

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.

Thomas Paine

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Patrick Henry

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