"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."

Virtue, Appearance, Hypocrisy, Reputation

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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."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"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

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"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

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

Eugene Sue, French Novelist

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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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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

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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."

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

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

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"A home without books is a body without soul."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"Hatred is settled anger."

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."