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Bob Dylan: “May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
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Cicero: “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
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Cicero: “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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William Ellery Channing: “The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Baruch Spinoza: “Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Marcus Aurelius: “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
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David Starr Jordan: “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
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Cato the Elder: “I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.
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John Locke: “Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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George Bernard Shaw: “Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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Theodore Hesburgh: “All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: “Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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Erik H. Erikson: “Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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George Orwell: “On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Robert S. Lynd: “Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
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Lyndon B. Johnson: “We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
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Sam Adams: “It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.
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Confucius: “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
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E. Y. Harburn: “Virtue is its own revenge.
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Clare Boothe Luce: “Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Voltaire: “What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Oscar Wilde: “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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George Bernard Shaw: “Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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Aristotle: “In justice is all virtues found in sum.
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Maya Angelou: “One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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Cicero: “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Alexander Pope: “In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast,
Their Virtue fix'd, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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