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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule

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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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. – Robert S. Lynd

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw

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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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