“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
                                        
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Tulsidas in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 37
“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
                                        
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“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”
Source: The Immoralist
“We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.”
                                        
                                        Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise. 
Maxim 25. 
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
                                    
                                        
                                        Part IV, Ch. 2 
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
                                    
                                        
                                        Speech in the House of Commons (October 22, 1945)  "Demobilisation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1945/oct/22/demobilisation#column_1703 
Post-war years (1945–1955) 
Variant: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. 
                                    
                                        
                                        Variant: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. 
Source: Animal Farm
                                    
                                
                                    “There is no greater wealth than Virtue,
And no greater loss than to forget it.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
                                        
                                        Verse IV.2 
Tirukkural
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        