"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice,..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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“You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.”
“Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.”
“The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.”
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“Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.”
“He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]”
“Happiness is the reward of virtue.”
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“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”
“The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.”
“I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".”