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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."	Abraham Lincoln
"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Suffering! . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."	Anatole France
"Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by."	André Maurois
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."	Aristotle
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."	Aristotle
"Some folks wear their halos much too tight."	Author Unknown
"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone."	Barbara Ehrenreich
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."	Barry Morris Goldwater
"He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue."	Benjamin Franklin
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."	Brendan Francis Behan
"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."	Buddha
"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."	Charles Krauthammer
"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
"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis."	Colin Campbell
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."	Confucius
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."	Confucius
"Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."	Confucius
"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them."	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
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André Maurois	Aristotle	Author Unknown
Barbara Ehrenreich	Barry Morris Goldwater	Benjamin Franklin
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Charles Krauthammer	Claude Adrien Helvetius	Colin Campbell
Confucius	David Star Jordan	Denis Diderot
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edmund Burke	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Euripides	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Frederick Sherwood Dunn
Friedrich Nietzsche	George Bernard Shaw	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Honoré de Balzac	Horace Bushnell	James Gould Cozzens
Jean de La Bruyère	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Dryden
John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Addison	Josh Billings
Laertius Diogenes	Ludwig van Beethoven	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margot Asquith
Martin Luther	Mary Bertone	Maya Angelou
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Phyllis McGinley	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Rene Descartes	Robert E. Kahn
Robert Hall	Ruth Fulton Benedict	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Steve Goodman
The Hitopadesa	Thomas Jefferson	Victor Hugo
Walter Bagehot	William Hazlitt	William Golding