"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."

Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author

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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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"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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"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."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."

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"With renunciation life begins."

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"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

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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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."

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"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."

"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."

"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."

"To be one's own master is to be the slave of self."

"How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue."

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."

"With renunciation life begins."

"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."