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"Blushing is the color of virtue."
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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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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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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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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
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"Blushing is the color of virtue."
Virtue
"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
Politics
"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."
Relationship
"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."
Man
"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
Ethics
"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
Friendship
"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."
Time
"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
Man
"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."
Animals
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