"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."

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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."

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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese 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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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."

Intellectual

"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."

Man

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."

Science

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

Nature

"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."

Nature

"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."

Man

"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."

Creativity

"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

Fear

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."

Nature

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."

Happiness