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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."

"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."
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"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."

"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
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