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

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. – Aristotle

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

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With virtue you cant be entirely poor; without virtue you cant really be rich. – Chinese Proverb

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