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~ Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~

~ Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. ~

Denis Diderot

~ Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

~ He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~

Theodore M. Hesburgh

~ Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. ~

François de la Rochefoucauld

~ What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~

Voltaire

~ A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~

Anne Petry

~ The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing ~

Blaise Pascal

~ I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. ~

Henry David Thoreau

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