"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."

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"In the long run, the public interest depends on private 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

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

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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

Virtue, Godliness, Kindness, Justice, Harvest

"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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"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

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"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion."

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"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."

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"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."

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"But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government."

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"Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character."

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"There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now."

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"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."

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