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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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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
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"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."
People
"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."
Man
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
Justice
"Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more."
Benefit
"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
Opportunity
"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
Man
"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."
Strategy
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
Intelligence
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
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