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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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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."
Shame
"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."
Privacy
"Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?"
Nation
"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."
Destiny
"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."
Nature
"The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man."
Philosophy
"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."
Nature
"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."
Liberty
"Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes."
Character
"They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch."
Philosophy
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