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“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.”

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Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.”

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Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.”

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Author:Rebecca West

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.”

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Author:Thomas Wolfe

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”

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Author:William James