The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the co

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

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Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A

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

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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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