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Thomas Aquinas

"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."

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"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

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"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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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

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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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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

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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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