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

Virtue, Living

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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

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"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

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"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

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"You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve."

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"An honest man is always a child."

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

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