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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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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. – Edith Sitwell

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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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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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Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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