Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated – Jocelyn Murray
- Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. – Honor de Balzac
- Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. – Chris Matakas
- Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. – Lyman Abbott
- Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice. – Raheel Farooq
- In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. – Marquis de Sade
- Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man – himself so true, That no false does he brew. – Munindra Misra
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. – Henry David Thoreau
- Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue. – Matthew Lewis
- Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. – Adam Smith
- A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. – Eli Ashpence
- A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Knowledge is the seed,intelligence is the stem,understanding is the branch,and wisdom is the fruit. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Learning is intelligence.Knowing is understanding.Practicing is wisdom.Teaching is virtue. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Truth is the highest knowledge.Faith is the highest courage.Reason is the highest wisdom.Love is the highest virtue. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. – Dada Bhagwan
- Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. – Idries Shah
- Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
- The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. – Israel M Kirzner
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. – Idries Shah
- The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness. – Billy Graham
- We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on. – Neymat Khan
- Destruction is a man’s will,Nevertheless Prevention is also a man’s will,Its a man’s choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. 🙂 – Babu Rajan
- Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction. – Richie Norton
- Many call this process ‘the destruction of nature.’ But it’s not really destruction, it’s change. Nature cannot be destroyed. – Yuval Noah Harari
- The Mustard Seed CharmWith Faith As Small As A Mustard Seed, Then You Can Move Mountains: Nothing Will Be Impossible – Viola Shipman
- A wise man does not eat his seed even in the time of hunger, he knows the value of his seed! – Stan The Man SA
- There is an oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become an oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop – Saji Ijiyemi
- The oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become the oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop – Saji Ijiyemi
- We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty. – Warren Eyster
- Never plant a seed that seems good to eyes despite plant a seed that will be a shed in the sunlight. – merlinthomas