"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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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Virtue, Name, Self, Vices

"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Virtue, Reward, Goodness, Effort, Life

"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Live life with great humility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Live the life you've dreamed."

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"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"

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"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing, but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."

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"Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts."

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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Solitude

"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."

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"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning."

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"Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

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