"Virtue is insufficient temptation."

Virtue, Temptation

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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

Duty

"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

Government

"Very few people can afford to be poor."

People

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Communication

"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."

Adaptation

"Morality is not respectability."

Morality

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."

Truth

"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

Anthropology

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

Ethics

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

Hell