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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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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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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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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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"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."
Truth
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
Man
"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
God
"Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other."
Genius
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
People
"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."
Desire
"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
Power
"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices."
Society
"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers."
Love
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
Certainty
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