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The problem in this case was you just can’t be a middle-aged virgin in America without something be wrong with you. People can’t conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can’t conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you’re stronger, it’s so much easier to imagine you’re weaker. You’re addicted to self-abuse. You’re a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.

Chuck Palahniuk (1961-)

Chuck Palahniuk

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994)

Dr. Linus Pauling

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it

Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937)

Edgar Watson Howe

Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Virtue is like a rich stone, - best plain set.

Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

G. K. Chesterton

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Gordon B. Hinckley (1910-)

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Heinrich Heine

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Henry Ward Beecher

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937)

Horace

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

James Russell Lowell

Virtue is not knowing but doing

Japanese Proverb

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