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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
Gain
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
Nature
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."
Man
"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."
Strategy
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
Evil
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
Justice
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Pleasure
"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."
Law
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
War
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
Love
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