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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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Personal Development
"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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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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Personal Development
"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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Personal Development
"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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"Business is the salt of life."
Business
"You are very harsh.''I have seen the world."
Reality
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
Family
"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
Thought
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
Faith
"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."
Love
"He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first."
Wisdom
"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."
Life
"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
God
"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"
Morality
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