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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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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. – English Proverb

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We bow with resignation beneath the tempestuous storms of life; but a daily vexation, like a moth eating a garment, consumes our virtue. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820

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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. – Thomas Edward Brown

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But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3 – Bible

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