"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."

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"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."

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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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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Virtue, Reward, Goodness, Effort, Life

"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

"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Virtue, Godliness, Kindness, Justice, Harvest

"Live life with great humility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Humility, Life, Modesty, Character

"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Virtue, Strength, Resilience, Truth

"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Virtue, Rest, Renewal, Strength

"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Virtue, Love, Christianity, Ideal

"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Virtue, Motherhood, Deed, Life

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

"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

"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."

"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."

"Live life with great humility."

"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."

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

"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."

"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"

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"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."

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"But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself."

"It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."