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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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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself."
Change
"Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old."
Old
"Necessity makes even the timid brave."
Courage
"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."
Life
"No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right."
Man
"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."
Emotional
"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
Politics
"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."
Health
"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense."
Battle
"Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure."
Precedent
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