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"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
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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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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."

"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."

"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."

"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
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