"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man."

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"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

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"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."

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"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

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"To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man."

"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."

"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."

"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended."

"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."

"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."

"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."

"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."