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“I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.”

Evil Virtue Sacrifice Disease Glorious Guru Egotism

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.”

“Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”

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Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.”

Virtue Disease Avoiding Scandal Vice And Virtue

Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.”

Want Self Parent Virtue Violence Safe Disease Achievement Destruction Offspring Self Destruction

Author:Estelle Ramey

“Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.”

War Soul Evil Virtue Particular Disease Clothes Vices Corruption Woods Envy Destroyed Destructive Iron Worms Consuming Prohibition Rust Moths Destructive Power

Author:Menander

“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.”

Men Culture Term Wealth Effort Poverty Virtue Greater Ignorance Disease Degrees Labor Increase Instinct Hunger Vices Impulse Leisure Wealth And Poverty

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?”

Should May Children Matter Parent Sound Answers Virtue Disease Behavior Doctors Police Criminals Tolerance Prey Public School Exam

Author:Dave Hunt

“A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.”

Way Mind May Ideas Process Virtue Disease Valuable Acquire Germs

Author:Kingsley Martin

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”

Literature Virtue Stage Morality Disease Primaries Boredom Syphilis

Author:Karl Kraus

“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.”

Mind Virtue Integrity Equal Disease Mercy Contentment Balanced Covetousness Austerity

Author:Chanakya

“The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”

Company Virtue Health Disease Vices Health Care Contagious

Author:Charles Caleb Colton