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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
Beauty
French Proverb

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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
Morality
James A. Froude

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
Leaders and Leadership
R. Buckminster Fuller

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Virtue is the only true nobility.
Virtue
Thomas Fuller

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Virtue
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Forgiveness
Indira Gandhi

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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
War
German Proverb

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Passion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Self-love
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Heroes and Heroism
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Modesty
Oliver Goldsmith

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Tenderness is a virtue.
Tenderness
Oliver Goldsmith

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Law and Lawyers
Oliver Goldsmith

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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Tolerance
Sir James Goldsmith

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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
Patience
George Granville

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Income
Greek Proverb

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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
Strength
David Hare

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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
Respectability
Sir John Herschel

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
War
Thomas Hobbes

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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Economy and Economics
Horace

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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Virtue
Edgar Watson Howe

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Talent
Aldous Huxley

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Kindness
Robert Green Ingersoll

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Aristocracy
Thomas Jefferson

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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
Samuel Johnson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun