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"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them."	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."	Abraham Lincoln
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions."	Martin Luther
"Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by."	André Maurois
"God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."	Phyllis McGinley
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."	Siddha Nagarjuna
"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
"Some folks wear their halos much too tight."	Author Unknown
"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
"Virtue is insufficient temptation."	George Bernard Shaw
"Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
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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