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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

"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!"

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."

"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
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