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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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. – Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859

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

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. – Thomas Edward Brown

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The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age. – Elliot Paul

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Id rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. – Ani DiFranco

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