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"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
Nature
"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."
Genius
"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
Soul
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."
Nonsense
"You will find my last words in the blue folder."
Will
"Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful."
Hatred
"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."
Work
"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
Art
"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
Mediocrity
"It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."
Nature
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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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Personal Development
"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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Personal Development
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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Personal Development
"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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Personal Development
"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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Personal Development
"The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted."
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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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