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Not everybody responds to yelling at 'em or jumping all over 'em. Sometimes you need to put your arm around somebody and encourage them.

My divorce wasn't fun.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's suffrages, will be to elevate merit even from obscurity. As riches increase and accumulate in few hands; as luxury prevails in society; virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.”

“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?”

“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.”

“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”

“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

“If swindling pays, then it will not stop. [...] you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays.”

It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.