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"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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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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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."
Man
"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
Fear
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
Mind
"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
Virtue
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
Happiness
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
Force
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
Instinct
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
Evil
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
Heart
"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."
Suicide
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