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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."

"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."

"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself."
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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."


"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."


"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
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