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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

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Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

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I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human. ↗

— Clive Owen

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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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