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- Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), Cato
- Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. - Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Night Thoughts
- All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speech on the Conciliation of America
- One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
- Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
- Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
- Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
- He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Bessie Stanley
- Technology: No Place for Wimps!
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert
- Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
- To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
- Unknown
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