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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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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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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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"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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"Silence is the wit of fools."
Fool

"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Events

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
Life

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
Art

"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
Man

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
Heart

"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."
Soul

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
People

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."
Nature

"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."
Sexuality
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