"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words."

Virtue, Language, Nothing, Words

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

Virtue, Happiness, Suffering, Example

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

Virtue, Light, Moon, Sea

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Virtue, Innocence, Love, Pursuit

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Virtue, Patience, Morality, Courage, Character

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Virtue, Chastity, Wrong

"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Virtue, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Virtue, Self, Vices, Word

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Virtue, Modesty

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Virtue, Goodness

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Virtue, Trade

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"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."

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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."

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"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."

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"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

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"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."

"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."

"The art is long, life is short."

"To do nothing is also a good remedy."

"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."

"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."