"Silence is the virtue of fools."

Virtue, Fools, Silence

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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

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"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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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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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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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."

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"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."

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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

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"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

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"The worst men often give the best advice."

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