“No virtue is equal to the good of others and
no vice greater than hurting others.”
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
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.”
— John Cleland, book Fanny Hill
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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