"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

Virtue, Measure, Misfortune, Pleasure

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"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

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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

"The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman."

Caroline A. Huling, American Author

Virtue, Day, Idleness, Past

"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

"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."

Eugene Sue, French Novelist

Virtue, Poverty

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

Moderation

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."

Truth

"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

Adversity

"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."

Chance

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

Battle

"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."

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"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."

Wealth

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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."

"The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman."

"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!"

"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."

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

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"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."

"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."

"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."

"A bad peace is even worse than war."

"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor."

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."