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~ By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever. ~

Lao-Tze

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

Confucius 551BC

~ Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ~

David Starr Jordan

~ Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ~

Satchel Paige

~ Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. ~

Leo Tolstoy

~ Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ~

Buddha

~ Virtue is like precious odors most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. ~

Francis Bacon

~ Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. ~

Plato

~ Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness. ~

Confucius 551BC

~ By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever. ~

Lao-Tze

~ There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country ~

Joseph Addison

~ Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ~

Spinoza

~ Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ~

Cicero

~ Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ~

George Washington

~ All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ~

Aristotle

~ Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~

C.S. Lewis

~ Virtue has never been as respectable as money ~

Mark Twain

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

Confucius

~ One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. ~

Sam Levenson

~ Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. ~

Augustine J Duganne

~ Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence. ~

Vanna Bonta

~ Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~ Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ~

Spinoza

~ Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ~

Winston Churchill

~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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