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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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There is no road or ready way to virtue. – Sir Thomas Browne

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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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