"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

Virtue, Kindness

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"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Virtue, Kindness, Compassion, Happiness, Empathy

"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

Church

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

Education

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."

Nature

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Man

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."

Cloud

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

Belief

"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven."

Men

"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."

Truth

"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."

Being

"Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new."

Belief