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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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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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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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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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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
Courage
"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave."
Soul
"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
Soul
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
Man
"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."
Friendship
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
Mistake
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
Virtue
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
Influence
"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."
Burden
"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."
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