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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. – Henry David Thoreau

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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

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But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3 – Bible

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

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We bow with resignation beneath the tempestuous storms of life; but a daily vexation, like a moth eating a garment, consumes our virtue. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820

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