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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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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. – Edith Sitwell

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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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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle

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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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