"Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the 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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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

Socrates, Greek 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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"The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman."

Caroline A. Huling, American Author

Virtue, Day, Idleness, Past

"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

Virtue, Happiness, Suffering, Example

"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."

Eugene Sue, French Novelist

Virtue, Poverty

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

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"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."

Dignity

"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation."

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"I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours."

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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."

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

"The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman."

"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."

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

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"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."

"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation."

"Let us love temperately, things violent last not."

"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."

"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."

"Many good purposes lie in the churchyard."

"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself."

"I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours."