"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."

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"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."

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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

Virtue, Humility, Life, Modesty, Character

"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

Virtue, Godliness, Profit, Eternal, Values

"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Virtue, Goodness, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Virtue, Strength, Resilience, Truth

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Virtue, Rest, Renewal, Strength

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Live life with great humility."

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

"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."

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

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

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."

"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."

"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."

"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."

"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."

"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."