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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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Virtue would not travel so far if vanity did not keep her company. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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Seek virtue rather than riches. You may be sure to acquire the first; but cannot promise for the latter. No one can rob you of the first without your consent; you may be deprived of the latter a hundred ways. – James Burgh, The Dignity of Human Nature: Book III. Of Virtue, 1754

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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. – Charles Caleb Colton

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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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