"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality."

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"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality."

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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Virtue, Reward, Goodness, Effort, Life

"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Live life with great humility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Too much virtue can be criminal."

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"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."

Nothing

"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."

Eye

"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."

Indifference

"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."

Heart

"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."

Remorse

"Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter."

Love

"Without money honor is merely a disease."

Money

"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes."

Eye

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

Death