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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
George Washington
"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
Benjamin Franklin
"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
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
C.S. Lewis
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
Will Rogers
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
Henry Kissinger
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
Bertrand Russell
"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
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
Aristotle
"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
C.S. Lewis
"Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient."
Author Unknown
"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
Tacitus
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
Oprah Winfrey
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."
Joseph Addison
"Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is."
C.S. Lewis
"That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."
GK Chesterton
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