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“As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Albert Einstein
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Oscar Wilde
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
Socrates
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
C.S. Lewis
“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
Buddha
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Voltaire
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
Aristotle