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Virtue Quotes by Will Durant
- We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that…
- It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
- Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
- The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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