"Virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue."

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"Virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue."

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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

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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

Virtue, Modesty, Poets, World

"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

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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

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"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."

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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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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"Writing is the geometry of the soul."

"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."

"Necessity who is the mother of our invention."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."