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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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Personal Development
"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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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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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Leadership
"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."
Justice
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
Education
"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."
Culture
"O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him."
Prayer
"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
Self-Control
"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
Friendship
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Innovation
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."
Education
"No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory."
Education
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