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Quotes about virtue
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. (Gorky Maxim)
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Gorky Maxim)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. (Gorky Maxim)
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks. (Gorky Maxim)
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. (Gorky Maxim)
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle. (Gorky Maxim)
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. (Gorky Maxim)
Forgotten is forgiven. (Gorky Maxim)
Never underestimate the importance of nastiness to our progress thus far. If intelligence and gentleness were the chief criteria, our planet would be ruled by whales. (Gorky Maxim)
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. (Gorky Maxim)
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. (Gorky Maxim)
Seeke out ye goode in everie man, and speke of alle the beste ye can; then wil alle men speke wel of thee and say how kynde of hearte ye bee. (Gorky Maxim)
She that was ever fair and never proud,
Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud. (Gorky Maxim)
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. (Gorky Maxim)
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. (Gorky Maxim)
Great necessities call out great virtues. (Gorky Maxim)
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. (Gorky Maxim)
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. (Gorky Maxim)
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. (Gorky Maxim)
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. (Gorky Maxim)
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. (Gorky Maxim)
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. (Gorky Maxim)
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. (Gorky Maxim)
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. (Gorky Maxim)
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