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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
Books
"Silence is the wit of fools."
Fool
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Events
"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."
Virtue
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
History
"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."
Acceptance
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
Love
"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."
Man
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Equality
"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
Man
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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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"The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted."
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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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