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Seek virtue rather than riches. You may be sure to acquire the fir

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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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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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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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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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. – Henry David Thoreau

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