"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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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

Virtue, Faith, Wisdom, Love, Boldness

"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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"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved."

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"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!"

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"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

Friendship

"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

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"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."

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"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."

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"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

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

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

"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."

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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

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

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

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

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

Explore more quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved."

"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!"

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."

"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."

"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."

"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."