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“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
Socrates
“As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Albert Einstein
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
Maya Angelou
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Oscar Wilde
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
Buddha
“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge”
Voltaire
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Starr Jordan
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