"Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition."

Virtue, Selfishness, Behavior, Observation

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"Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

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"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."

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"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."

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"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

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"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

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"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

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"No young man ever thinks he shall die."

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"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

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"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."

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"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."

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