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"The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."	Edmund Burke
"Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin."	Horace Bushnell
"Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis."	Colin Campbell
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."	Confucius
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."	Confucius
"Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."	Confucius
"Be virtuous and you'll be happy? Nonsense! Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous."	James Gould Cozzens
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."	Rene Descartes
"Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm."	Denis Diderot
"Blushing is the color of virtue."	Laertius Diogenes
"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."	John Dryden
"Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary."	Frederick Sherwood Dunn
"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone."	Barbara Ehrenreich
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Charles Krauthammer	Claude Adrien Helvetius	Colin Campbell
Confucius	David Star Jordan	Denis Diderot
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edmund Burke	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Euripides	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton	Frederick Sherwood Dunn
Friedrich Nietzsche	George Bernard Shaw	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Honoré de Balzac	Horace Bushnell	James Gould Cozzens
Jean de La Bruyère	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Dryden
John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Addison	Josh Billings
Laertius Diogenes	Ludwig van Beethoven	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margot Asquith
Martin Luther	Mary Bertone	Maya Angelou
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Phyllis McGinley	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Rene Descartes	Robert E. Kahn
Robert Hall	Ruth Fulton Benedict	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Steve Goodman
The Hitopadesa	Thomas Jefferson	Victor Hugo
Walter Bagehot	William Hazlitt	William Golding