"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."

Virtue, Past

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"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Virtue, Crime, Statesman

"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

Virtue, Learning, Imitation, Authenticity

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Virtue,

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Virtue, Living

"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

Virtue, Happiness, Life, Progress

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Virtue, Worth

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Virtue, Popular

"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

Virtue, Energy, Vice

"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

Virtue, Kindness, Politeness, Respect, Humility

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"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."

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"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house."

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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine."

Love

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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."

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"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."

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"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."

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"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."

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"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

"Fortune, that favors fools."

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"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need."

"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."

"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine."