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"That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect."	Jean de La Bruyère
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."	Confucius
"Blushing is the color of virtue."	Laertius Diogenes
"Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary."	Frederick Sherwood Dunn
"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
"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
"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
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Some folks wear their halos much too tight."	Author Unknown
"Virtue is insufficient temptation."	George Bernard Shaw
"Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love."	Reinhold Niebuhr
"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."	David Star Jordan
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."	Barry Morris Goldwater
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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