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

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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

Virtue, Kindness, Compassion, Happiness, Empathy

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Virtue, Mercy, Truth, Love, Respect

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Virtue, Vice

"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

Virtue, Modesty, Poets, World

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Virtue,

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Mind, Virginity

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Laws, Support

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

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Virtue, Comfort, Man

"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

Virtue, Integrity, Man, Value

"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Long-suffering, Survival, Patience

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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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"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."

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"To do nothing is also a good remedy."

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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance."

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"Life is short, the art long."

Art

"The art is long, life is short."

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"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."

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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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

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

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

"Walking is man's best medicine."

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

"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."

"To do nothing is also a good remedy."

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance."

"Life is short, the art long."

"The art is long, life is short."

"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."