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"Virtue is reason which has become energy."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
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"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."
"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."
"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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