"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be."

Virtue, Soul, Excellence, Body, Character

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"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be."

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Grace, Gratitude, Generosity, Life

"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

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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

Virtue, Light, Moon, Sea

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Virtue, Vice

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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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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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

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"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."

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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."

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"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."

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"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

"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!"

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

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

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

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."

"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."

"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."

"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."