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Letter "V" » virtues
«He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.»
«If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.»
«Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
accordance, equilibrium, general, impulse, inspires, Laws, maintenance, vices, virtues
«Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.»
«He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.»
«It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Friends
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experience, few, folks, has-been, very, vices, virtues
«If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.»
«It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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distinction, hard, lot, many, virtues
«Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Men
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easily, governed, vices, virtues
«He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses»
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