"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."

Virtue, Excellence, Faults, Vice

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"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the 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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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"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

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"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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"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

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"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

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"They say women and music should never be dated."

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"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

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"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

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