"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."

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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

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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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"They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"

Compassion

"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."

Culture

"Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure."

Thought

"A war between Europeans is a civil war."

War

"Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens."

Power

"At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth."

Spiritual

"Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery."

Language

"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Power

"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"

War

"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."

Friendship