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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
James Michener
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
Thomas Paine
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington
"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."
Mark Twain
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
Bertrand Russell
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
Saint Augustine
"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
"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so."
Aristotle
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
Benjamin Franklin
"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."
Saint Augustine
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."
Daniel Webster
"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive."
Thomas Jefferson
"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control."
Thomas Edison
"The humblest citizen of all the land; when clad in the armour of a righteous cause; is stronger than all the hosts of Error."
William Jennings Bryan
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
Aristotle
"Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient."
Author Unknown
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
Russell Lynes
"That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake."
Mahatma Gandhi
"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
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