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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.


Lucretia Mott


#degradation #fountains #great #life #nation

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.


Jawaharlal Nehru


#least #most #often #own #person

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


#country #friends #himself #i #man

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.


Heinrich Heine


#half #i #i do #know #she

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.


Charles Inglis


#amiable #dark #exerted #laid #malevolent

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.


Vittorio Alfieri


#crime #distinguishes #err #felt #human

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.


Mikhail Bakunin


#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.


Harry Browne


#acts #bear #care #consequences #free

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.


Benjamin Franklin


#great man #man #never #same #time

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


#certain #goodness #grand #great #great man






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