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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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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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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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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