George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Virtue
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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