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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 say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. – English Proverb

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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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If weve learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue. – George Bush

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Be not simply good – be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break. – Herodotus

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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. – Alison Lurie

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