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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in

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

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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. – Francis H. Bradley

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