"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."

Virtue, Madness, Man

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"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

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Virtue, Worth

"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Virtue, Popular

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Virtue, Energy, Vice

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Faith, Wisdom, Love, Boldness

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Kindness, Politeness, Respect, Humility

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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

Death

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Suicide

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

Death

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

Self-Awareness

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

Speech

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Delight

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."

Freedom

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"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."

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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

Explore more quotes by Emile M. Cioran

"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

"We inhabit a language rather than a country."

"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."

"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."