Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoi

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. – Robert S. Lynd

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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. – Thomas Edward Brown

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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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