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"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!"
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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."
Nature
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
People
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
Advice
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
Age
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
Friendship
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
Life
"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
Abuse
"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
Books
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
Friendship
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
Education
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