"Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something."

Virtue, Goodness, Service, Purpose, Values

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"Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something."

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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

Socrates, Greek 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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"The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

Identity

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

Faith

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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."

"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."

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"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."

"The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have."

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."