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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

John Henry Newman

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Tugend ist ihre eigene Belohnung und bringt das wahrste und höchste Vergnügen mit sich; Wenn wir es aber nur zum Vergnügen kultivieren, sind wir egoistisch und nicht religiös und werden niemals das Vergnügen erlangen, weil wir niemals die Tugend haben können.

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