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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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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices."
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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