#virtue

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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.


Baruch Spinoza


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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.


Baruch Spinoza


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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.


Baruch Spinoza


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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.


Baruch Spinoza


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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.


Baruch Spinoza


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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


Victor Hugo


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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.


E. W. Howe


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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.


Blaise Pascal


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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.


Adam Smith


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