“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tag: virtues
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“My purity is based on the fact that nobody offered me much money. I suppose that had I moved into more popular realms, I might have surrendered some of the characteristics of my nature that are now described as virtues.” — Leonard Cohen, “Leonard Cohen’s Nervous Breakthrough,” Musician (July 1988)
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“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish’d by our virtues.” — William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
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“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.” — Bertrand Russell, On Education
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“There are virtues that, adhered to too strictly or carried too far, become vices.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.” — Hugh Kingsmill, The Progress of a Biographer
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