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Quotes about virtue
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. (Gorky Maxim)
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. (Gorky Maxim)
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. (Gorky Maxim)
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. (Gorky Maxim)
Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. (Gorky Maxim)
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. (Gorky Maxim)
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. (Gorky Maxim)
The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. (Gorky Maxim)
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue is its own reward. (Gorky Maxim)
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. (Gorky Maxim)
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. (Gorky Maxim)
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women. (Gorky Maxim)
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. (Gorky Maxim)
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. (Gorky Maxim)
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. (Gorky Maxim)
Weed -- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. (Gorky Maxim)
The virtue in most request is conformity. (Gorky Maxim)
The only reward of virtue is virtue. (Gorky Maxim)
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. (Gorky Maxim)
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