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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Lord Chesterfield

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

John Jay Chapman

Government

Virtue

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

William Ellery Channing

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Miguel De Cervantes

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Nobility

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.