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Virtue Quotes by Albert Camus
- A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
- Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
- Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
- Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
- His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.
- On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is…
- The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no…
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