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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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"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."
"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."
"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
"For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith."
"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."
"Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
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