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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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Personal Development
"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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Personal Development
"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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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
Ambition
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
People
"We pardon to the extent that we love."
Love
"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Man
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
People
"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."
Truth
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy
"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
Nothing
"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."
Love
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