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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular  (Virtues Quotes) Perfection is beyond our reach, but they who earnestly strive to become perfect, acquire excellences and virtues of which the multitude have no conception  (Virtues Quotes) One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion  (Virtues Quotes) If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation  (Virtues Quotes) The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality  (Virtues Quotes) Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised  (Virtues Quotes) History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times  (Virtues Quotes) Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others  (Virtues Quotes) Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned  (Virtues Quotes) Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go  (Virtues Quotes) I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared  (Virtues Quotes) Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth  (Virtues Quotes) By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess, even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odours  (Virtues Quotes) Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect  (Virtues Quotes) Let a man’s talents or virtues be what they may, we only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself  (Virtues Quotes) We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health  (Virtues Quotes) They improvidentially piped growing volumes of sewage into the sea, the healing virtues of which were advertised on every railway station  (Virtues Quotes) Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out  (Virtues Quotes) Fortitude has its extremes as well as the rest of the virtues, and ought, like them, to be always attended by prudence  (Virtues Quotes) Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage  (Virtues Quotes) Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb  (Virtues Quotes) Those who believe that the praises which arise from valor are superior to those which proceed from any other virtues have not considered  (Virtues Quotes) Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not  (Virtues Quotes) If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong  (Virtues Quotes) There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness  (Virtues Quotes) A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light  (Virtues Quotes) If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success  (Virtues Quotes) Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means  (Virtues Quotes) Let men say what they will; according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women, the economical virtue above all other virtues  (Virtues Quotes) Virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calm of life  (Virtues Quotes)
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