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"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive."	Thomas Jefferson
"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."	Tacitus
"I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice."	Carl Jung
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind."	Kahlil Gibran
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."	James Michener
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."	Martin Luther King Jr.
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle."	Robert Alden
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."	C.S. Lewis
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot."	Albert Einstein
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."	Joseph Addison
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!"	Theodore Roosevelt
"It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves."	C.S. Lewis
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."	Abigail Van Buren
"There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing."	Billy Graham
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."	Adam Smith
"No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness."	Reinhold Niebuhr
"Character is what you are in the dark."	John Whorfin
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."	Daniel Webster
"Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."	Will Rogers

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