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

Virtue, Ambition, Vice

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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Virtue, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Virtue, Crime, Statesman

"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

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Virtue,

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

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Virtue, Living

"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

Virtue, Happiness, Life, Progress

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

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Virtue, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Contentment

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Virtue, Goodness

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Virtue,

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Virtue, Worth

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

Religion

"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."

Truth

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

Education

"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

"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."

Happiness

"Error is always more busy than truth."

Truth

"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."

Experience

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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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"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction."

"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."

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

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

"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."

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

"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."

"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."

"Error is always more busy than truth."

"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."