If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.

Vauvenargues
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  1. Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing. - Thiruvalluvar

  2. May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. - Mary MacLane

  3. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? - Robert A. Heinlein

  4. Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

  5. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

More Quotes By Vauvenargues
  1. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

  2. The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

  3. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

  4. He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

  5. If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

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