"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice."

Virtue, First, Order, Vice

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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

Virtue, Godliness, Kindness, Justice, Harvest

"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

Rumi, Persian Poet

Virtue, Wisdom, Peace, Character, Kindness

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

John Green, American Author

Virtue, Earth, Faith, Power

"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

Shame

"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."

Faith

"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

Man

"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."

Privacy

"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!"

Care

"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."

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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."

"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."

"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."

"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

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

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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."

"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."

"Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust."

"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."

"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."

"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."

"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!"

"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."