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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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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have ones experiences in common. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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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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Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by. – André Maurois, Ariel, 1924

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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