The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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