Quote by Joseph Addison
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prospe

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. – Joseph Addison

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. – Joseph Addison

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

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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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