"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."

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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."

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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."

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"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."

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