"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."

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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."

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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

Virtue, Name, Self, 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."

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

Virtue, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"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

Virtue, Godliness, Kindness, Justice, Harvest

"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

"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

"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Virtue, Love, Christianity, Ideal

"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Virtue, Motherhood, Deed, Life

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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

Nature

"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

Ignorance

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."

Nature

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."

Happiness

"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."

Man

"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."

Man

"Desire is the very essence of man."

Desire

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."

Man

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."

Virtue

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."

Happiness