"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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"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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"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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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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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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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

Literature

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

Religion

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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"The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature."

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"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."

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"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

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"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."

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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

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