"Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue."

Virtue, Ambition, Vice

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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Virtue, Anger, Enemy, Pride, Control

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Virtue,

"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

John Green, American Author

Virtue, Earth, Faith, Power

"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Wisdom, Courage, Love

"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Discipline, Follow, Choice, Growth

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Virtue, Strength, Resilience, Truth

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Virtue, Day, Night, Temptation

"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

Virtue, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"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

Virtue, Learning, Imitation, Authenticity

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Kindness, Politeness, Respect, Humility

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"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."

Charity

"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains."

Energy

"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."

Religion

"Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden."

Burden

"The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."

People

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."

Education

"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."

Truth

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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

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

"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

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

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

"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."

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

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

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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable."

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."

"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains."

"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."

"Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden."

"The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."

"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."