"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."

Virtue, Affliction, Honor, Humility

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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."

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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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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."

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