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"Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue."
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
"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."
"Affectation of candour is common enough-one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design-to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad-belongs to you alone."
"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."
"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!"
"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me."
"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."
"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."
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