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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. - English Proverb

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. – English Proverb

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Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A

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Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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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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With virtue you cant be entirely poor; without virtue you cant really be rich. – Chinese Proverb

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