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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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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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"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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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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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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"The idle always have a mind to do something."
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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."
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"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them."
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
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"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."
Men

"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."
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"To possess taste, one must have some soul."
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"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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