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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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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. – Joseph Addison

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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Virtue would not travel so far if vanity did not keep her company. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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