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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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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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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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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Philosophy
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
People
"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."
Heart
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
Ambition
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
People
"We pardon to the extent that we love."
Love
"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Man
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