“ That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do. ”
- Karl Barth- Copy
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“ No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
- 244
“ Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. ”
- Caroline Kennedy- Copy
- 112
“ What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle? ”
- Golda Meir- Copy
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“ Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
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“ Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
- 254
“ Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate. They too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ When virtue hides her face it is called modesty; when vice does so, it is called shame. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 281
“ A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 854
“ Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The more we use wisdom and virtue, the more they are our own, and the more we have of them. ”
- Benjamin Whichcote- Copy
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“ The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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