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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."	Euripides
"Suffering! . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."	Anatole France
"He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue."	Benjamin Franklin
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."	Barry Morris Goldwater
"People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking."	Steve Goodman
"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."	Robert Hall
"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."	William Hazlitt
"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled."	The Hitopadesa
"From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought."	Victor Hugo
"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."	Thomas Jefferson
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."	David Star Jordan
"New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology."	Robert E. Kahn
"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."	Charles Krauthammer
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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