"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."

Virtue, Vices

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Grace, Gratitude, Generosity, Life

"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

Virtue, Happiness, Suffering, Example

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Kindness, Politeness, Respect, Humility

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

Virtue, Light, Moon, Sea

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Virtue, Innocence, Love, Pursuit

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Evil, Wisdom, Love, God

"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Virtue, Mercy, Truth, Love, Respect

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Laws, Support

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Virtue, Patience, Morality, Courage, Character

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"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

Knowledge

"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."

Criticism

"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."

Family

"There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman."

Woman

"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

Vice

"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason."

Reason

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."

Nature

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

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

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

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

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

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"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."

"It is difficult not to write satire."

"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."

"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."

"There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman."

"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason."

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."