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«There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous»
«The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
«There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.»
Author: Buddha
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«People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.»
«Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master»
«People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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«The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.»
«There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.»
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