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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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Personal Development
"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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"Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement."
Agreement
"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."
Crime
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
Resentment
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."
Law
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
Peace
"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."
Thought
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Law
"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."
Woman
"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
Leadership
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