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Virtue Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
- Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
- Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
- The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
- Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
- The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health,…
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