"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as 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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"Live life with great humility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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

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"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"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

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real 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."

"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."

"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."

"Live life with great humility."

"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."

"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."

"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

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"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."

"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."

"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."

"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking."

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