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"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."
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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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"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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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
Man
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Power
"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
Politics
"The future is purchased by the present."
Future
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life
"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."
Nature
"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."
Trust
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
Life
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