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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"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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"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
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