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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 are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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