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"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."	Robert Hall
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."	Edmund Burke
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."	Aristotle
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
"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."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."	John Dryden
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Be virtuous and you'll be happy? Nonsense! Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous."	James Gould Cozzens
"Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Blushing is the color of virtue."	Laertius Diogenes
"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."	Brendan Francis Behan
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."	Barry Morris Goldwater
"Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."	Confucius
"From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought."	Victor Hugo
"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
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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