Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
- Topic: Virtue
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
