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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ↗

— Plato

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There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.' ↗

— Jason Isaacs

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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. ↗

— George Santayana

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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

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